BIO

Tsu-Yu Tsao is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bard College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. Professor Tsao’s primary research interests are in the fields of economics of the family and labor economics. He is currently working on two research projects related to economics of the family. First, he uses a non-cooperative game theoretical framework to model how decisions are jointly made within families, especially when marital dissolution is likely, and empirically test the implications from those models. Second, he studies the importance of signaling in the marriage market. His project related to labor economics focuses on measurement of the effect of employer-based discrimination in the U.S. labor market.