Biography
Atlas (Jinsong) Wu is a Ph.D. candidate in Real Estate and Finance at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His research interests broadly span mental health economics and real estate finance, with a particular focus on how early-life mental health shapes long-term financial outcomes and real estate banking system. His job market paper, The Unsecured Consequence: Youth Development and Financial Distress, investigates the causal impact of youth mental health on household financial distress and debt structure in adulthood. He will be on the academic job market in Fall 2025 and Spring 2026.
Area of Focus
- Real Estate and Finance
Research Interests
- Mental Health and Finance, Real Estate Banking
Working Papers
- The Unsecured Consequence: Youth Mental Health and Financial Distress
- Childhood Mental Health and Long Run Financial Outcomes, with Dragana Cvijanovic and Moritz Wiedemann
- Smaller Banks, Smarter Lending? Evidence from the Commercial Real Estate Market, with Eva Steiner and Alexei Tchistyi
Education
- MS, Nolan School of Hotel Administration, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- BS, School of Management, Zhejiang University, China