Undergraduate Minor Students

Yihe Chang is originally from Beijing, China, and is currently studying Economics with minors in Latin American Studies, Civil Engineering, and Music. She is passionate about development economics, using empirical methods to explore how international engagement can promote more inclusive regional growth. Her work focuses on poverty, inequality, foreign investment, and how effective policy can be grounded in people’s lived experiences. 

She is currently conducting a field study in Peru that explores the two-sided information asymmetry between multinational companies and local communities. Her study on oil discovery in Guyana applies synthetic control methods to assess macroeconomic and institutional impacts, while...