Xin Jiang @ USC Welcome! I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from UC Santa Barbara, 2024. I am a Postdoc Teaching Fellow in Economics at the University of Southern California. I am leading a teaching lab aimed at enhancing undergraduate instruction by introducing innovative approaches to both micro- and macroeconomic theory courses. Drawing on my research in experimental economics, I plan to incorporate behavioral experiments into the classroom. These experiments will provide students with a hands-on understanding of when and why economic theories may fail, bridging the gap between theoretical concepts and real-world applications. Email: xjiang33 [at] usc.edu

Teaching Certificate and Award

• Outstanding Undergraduate Course Teaching Assistant, 2023-2024, UCSB
  

• The Certificate in College and University Teaching, 2024, UCSB
  

Teaching Experience

• Instructor of Record, at UCSB
  Corporation Finance, Winter 2020, Spring 2020
  

• Head Teaching Assistant, at UCSB
  Intermediate Microeconomics, Spring 2023
  

• Teaching Assistant, at UCSB
  Corporate Finance, 3 quarters
  Intermediate Microeconomics, 3 quarters
  Introduction to Game Theory, 3 quarters
  Principles for Microeconomics, 3 quarters
  Principles for Macroeconomics, 1 quarter
  

Publication

• Fortune and Identity
  with Gary Charness, Economics Letters (2023). [Paper]
  [Slides] [Data] [Variables] [R code]
  
  While group identity can generate in-group bias, the topic of how activities generate group affiliation is largely unexplored. We experimentally study the effect of shared experience on group affiliation, varying shared experiences by paying subjects differently for the same task. The results show that shared fortune leads to in-group bias, while shared misfortune does not.