Biography

Siyu Shi completed his PhD in Economics at Arizona State University in 2023. He is a quantitative macroeconomist with research interests in technological change and inequality. He develops dynamic models to answer the questions at hand, uses microdata to document facts and parameterizes models. In his dissertation, he studies the impact of technological usage on life-cycle earnings. He develops a life-cycle model with a college decision, technology choice, and human capital investments to quantify the contribution of technology to earnings growth and earnings inequality.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Siyu has been completing his ongoing projects and submitting working papers. He plans to develop new ideas with other researchers at the EUI.

Siyu has experience teaching undergraduate-level macroeconomics and as a teaching assistant for PhD-level macroeconomics at Arizona State University.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Digital transformations and society
• Inequality, welfare and social justice

Completed

• Technological change and society

Mentor

• Alexander Monge-Naranjo