Faculty Profiles - RAO Deyu | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Deyu RAO
饒德宇

PhD in Applied Economics & Management
Cornell University, 2022

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics

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ORCID

0000-0002-5661-1367

Research Interest

Environmental economics
Urban and regional economics
Applied microeconomics

Publications

2025 2

Cascading Effects: the Impact of Continental Drying on People, Food, and the Planet

Continental Drying : A Threat to Our Common Future / World Bank Publications. World Bank Publications, 2025, Ch. 2
Zhang, Fan; Chandanpurkar, Hrishi; Famiglietti, James; Rao, Deyu; Hogeboom, Rick; Sierra, Pavel; Borja-vega, Christian; Namara, Regassa; Rasu, Zarif
Book chapter

Continental Drying as Seen from the Outer Space

Continental Drying : A Threat to Our Common Future / World Bank Publications. World Bank Publications, 2025, Ch. 1
Zhang, Fan; Chandanpurkar, Hrishi; Famiglietti, James; Rao, Deyu; Hogeboom, Rick; Sierra, Pavel; Borja-vega, Christian; Namara, Regassa; Rasu, Zarif
Book chapter

2024 2

Random Forests with Economic Roots: Explaining Machine Learning in Hedonic Imputation

Computational Economics, November 2024
Zeng, Shipei; Rao, Deyu
Article

The Healthcare Cost of Air Pollution: Evidence from the World’s Largest Payment Network

The Review of Economics and Statistics, March 2024, p. 1-52
Barwick, Panle Jia; Li, Shanjun; Rao, Deyu; Zahur, Nahim Bin
Article

Book chapter 2

Cascading Effects: the Impact of Continental Drying on People, Food, and the Planet

Continental Drying : A Threat to Our Common Future / World Bank Publications. World Bank Publications, 2025, Ch. 2
Zhang, Fan; Chandanpurkar, Hrishi; Famiglietti, James; Rao, Deyu; Hogeboom, Rick; Sierra, Pavel; Borja-vega, Christian; Namara, Regassa; Rasu, Zarif

Continental Drying as Seen from the Outer Space

Continental Drying : A Threat to Our Common Future / World Bank Publications. World Bank Publications, 2025, Ch. 1
Zhang, Fan; Chandanpurkar, Hrishi; Famiglietti, James; Rao, Deyu; Hogeboom, Rick; Sierra, Pavel; Borja-vega, Christian; Namara, Regassa; Rasu, Zarif

Article 2

Random Forests with Economic Roots: Explaining Machine Learning in Hedonic Imputation

Computational Economics, November 2024
Zeng, Shipei; Rao, Deyu

The Healthcare Cost of Air Pollution: Evidence from the World’s Largest Payment Network

The Review of Economics and Statistics, March 2024, p. 1-52
Barwick, Panle Jia; Li, Shanjun; Rao, Deyu; Zahur, Nahim Bin

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

ECON6980

Independent Project

ECON5670

Urban Economics

ECON4670	Economics Research and Communication
ECON4800	ECON UG Honors Thesis II
ECON6950	MSc Project

ECON2103	Principles of Microeconomics
ECON3800	ECON UG Honors Thesis I
ECON4454	Green Economy and Sustainability
ECON4670	Economics Research and Communication

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 25 October 2025)

Current RPGs

Master of Philosophy

LI, Qingyang
Individualized Interdisciplinary Program
TAO, Junheng
Economics
LI, Wei
Economics

Projects

From January 2023 to December 2025

No Projects.
Bridging Divides: The Influence of Urban Transportation on Economic Equity

跨越隔閡：城市交通對經濟公平的影響 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
RAO Deyu (Lead)
2025 -
Local Governance and Environmental Regulation: Evidence from China's Urbanization

地方治理與環境監管：來自中國城市化的證據 Leading

RGC - Early Career Scheme
Project Team (HKUST)
RAO Deyu (Lead)
2024 -