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Last updated: June 6, 2026

Contact

Department of Economics, University College London
Drayton House, 30 Gordon St, London WC1H 0AN
uctpzji@ucl.ac.uk ยท ziyu-jiang.com

Education

2021-present
PhD in Economics, University College London
2021
MRes in Economics, University College London
2020
MSc in Economics, University College London
2018
BA in Economics, University of Cambridge

Research fields

Econometrics; unstructured data; factor models.

Working papers

Identification and Estimation of Simultaneous Equation Models Using Higher-Order Cumulant Restrictions

Revise and resubmit, Journal of Econometrics.

arXiv

Moment-Based Inference for Regression with Latent Dirichlet Covariates

Working paper.

Work in progress

Micro-foundation for Topic Models

Work in progress.

Teaching experience

2021-2022; 2025-present
ECON0019, Econometrics, University College London, undergraduate
2022-2025
ECON0064, Econometrics, University College London, MSc
2021-2022
ECON0005, Statistical Methods in Economics, University College London

Scholarship

2022-present
Center for Microdata Methods and Practice (CeMMAP), PhD scholarship

Conferences and seminars

  • UCL Econometrics Brownbag Seminar
  • 2026 Asia Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society
  • 2026 Econometric Society Interdisciplinary Frontier Economics and AI+ML Meeting (ESIF-AIML2026)
  • 2025 UCL-CeMMAP Ph.D. Econometrics Research Day

Other information

Languages
Mandarin (native), English (fluent)
Programming
MATLAB, Python, R