Yu (Alan) Yang | 杨 宇

Assistant Professor of Economics

Peking University | Guanghua School of Management

Email: alanyang@gsm.pku.edu.cn

Current Research

1. "On the Spatial Allocation of College Seats: Human Capital Production and the Distribution of Skilled Labor."

Journal of International Economics, R&R.  [PDF] [SSRN] [RePEc Archive] [BibTex]

2. "Sex and the City: Demographics, Spatial Sorting, and the Marriage Market."

PHBS-IER 2025 Conference.  [PDF] [SSRN] [BibTex]

w/ Min Fang, Zibin Huang, and Yushi Wang.

3. "A Dynamic Model of College Entrance and Completion."

Draft available upon request.

w/ Douglas Harris and Christopher Taber.

4. "Sorting by Height: Preferences, Matching, and Income Inequality."

Draft available upon request.

w/ Pierre-André Chiappori, David Ong, and Junsen Zhang.

Publications

1. "Education Competition and Fertility Intention: Evidence from China’s Private Tutoring Ban."

The Economic Journal (2025), forthcoming.  [Publisher] [PDF] [BibTex]

w/ Juanjuan Meng, Hui Wang, and Mingshan Zhang.

2. "Hard to Get: The Scarcity of Women and the Competition for High-Income Men in Urban China."

 Journal of Development Economics (2020), 144, 102434.  [Publisher] [PDF] [BibTex]

w/ David Ong and Junsen Zhang.

3. "Collaboration Incentives: Endogenous Selection into Single and Coauthorships by Surname Initials."

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2018), 147, 41-57.  [Publisher] [PDF] [BibTex]

w/ David Ong, Ho Fai Chan, and Benno Torgler.

[In Chinese journals:]

4. "人口流动与县域高中发展."

世界经济 (2025), 48:6, 220-248. (封面文章)  [Publisher] [PDF] [BibTex]

w/ 郭小琳, 黄子彬, 张子哲, 赵楠.

5. "家庭教育支出与身心健康——对“双减”政策的效果评估."

经济管理学刊 (2024), 3:1, 27-54.  [Publisher] [PDF] [BibTex]

w/ 孟涓涓, 王辉, 张明山.

Teaching

Public Economics (undergraduate): 2022 - present.

Applied Econometrics (PhD): 2022 - present.

Structural Approach in Labor Economics (PhD lecture): 2022, 2024.