Yu (Alan) Yang | 杨 宇

Assistant Professor of Economics

Peking University | Guanghua School of Management

Current work

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

(Single Author).  Under review.  [PDF] [SSRN] [RePEc Archive].

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

(w/ Juanjuan Meng, Hui Wang, and Mingshan Zhang).  Under revision.  [PDF] [SSRN].

Family Disruption and Education.

(w/ Yang Lyu).  Under review.  [PDF] [SSRN].

A Dynamic Model of College Entrance and Completion.

(w/ Douglas Harris and Christopher Taber).

Sex and the City: An Episode of China.

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

Intergenerational Mobility Effects of Regional Education and Migration Policy in China.

(w/ Jonas Jin and Xiaoyang Ye).

人口流动与县中发展：基于县级教育财政数据的实证研究.

(Migration and Rural High Schools: Evidence from Micro-level Education Finance Data)

(合作者: 郭小琳、黄子彬、张子哲、赵楠).  世界经济 , 返修中.

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Publications

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

(w/ David Ong and Junsen Zhang).  Journal of Development Economics, 144 (2020): 102434.

Collaboration Incentives: Endogenous Selection into Single and Coauthorships by Surname Initials in Economics and Management. 

(w/ David Ong, Ho Fai Chan, and Benno Torgler).  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 147 (2018): 41-57.

家庭教育支出与身心健康——对"双减"政策的效果评估. 

(Family Education Expenditure and Physical and Mental Health - The Effect of China's Private Tutoring Ban) [Extended abstract in English]

(合作者: 孟涓涓、王辉、张明山).  经济管理学刊 , 3:1 (2024): 27-54.

Pre-Doctoral Work

China and International Market Integration: Evidence From the Law of One Price in the Middle East and Africa. 

(w/ Vinh Dang, Erin So, and Kenneth Chan).  North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 54 (2020): 101127.

Yen or Yuan? The Law of One Price and Economic Integration in Asia. 

(w/ Vinh Dang and Kenneth Chan).  The World Economy, 41 (2018): 171–193.

Assessing Market Integration in the ASEAN with Retail Price Data. 

(w/ Vinh Dang).  Pacific Economic Review, 22:4 (2017): 510-532.