Yuhan Wang

Yuhan Wang (王钰涵)

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (UW-Madison; UW Madison).

I conduct research in agricultural economics, empirical industrial organization, and agricultural finance.

I combine machine learning tools — random-forest classification and BERT-based text measurement — with structural and causal methods, and I hold an M.S. in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison.

I am on the 2026–27 academic job market.

Research

Shipment Networks and Market Power in U.S. Poultry Procurement

Job Market Paper

Linking restricted Census shipment microdata to establishment records, I estimate a structural demand-and-supply system for the layer where U.S. poultry processors price to wholesale, retail, and food-service buyers. A simulated merger of the third- and fourth-largest firms raises average unit values by about 7 percent and converts 59 percent of downstream buyers' losses into deadweight loss.

Paper (PDF)