Yu (Alan) Yang | 杨 宇

Assistant Professor of Economics

Peking University | Guanghua School of Management

Email: alanyang@gsm.pku.edu.cn

Current Research

[1] "Geography of Beliefs: Trade Liberalization and Talent Allocation through College Major Choice"  (w/ Yang Lyu, Jimmy Mingzhi Xu, and Xiaoyang Ye)

[2] "College Success: Understanding the Roles of Financial Aid, Loans, Preparation, and Incentives"  (w/ Douglas Harris and Christopher Taber) 

       This version: 2026/10; First version: 2026/10. [PDF] [NBER WP]

[3] "When Rankings Fail"  (w/ Pierre-André Chiappori, David Ong, and Junsen Zhang)

Publications

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

       Journal of International Economics (2026).  [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [BibTeX]

[2] "Sex and the City: Demographics, Spatial Sorting, and the Marriage Market" (w/ Min Fang, Zibin Huang, and Yushi Wang)

       International Economic Review (2026).  [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [BibTeX].  Media coverage: [VoxChina] [南方周末Southern Weekly]

[3] "Education Competition and Fertility Intention: Evidence from China’s Private Tutoring Ban" (w/ Juanjuan Meng, Hui Wang, Mingshan Zhang)

       The Economic Journal (2026).  [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [BibTeX]

[4] "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 (2020).  [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [BibTeX]

[5] "Collaboration Incentives: Endogenous Selection into Single and Coauthorships by Surname Initials" (w/ David Ong, Ho Fai Chan, and Benno Torgler) 

       Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2018).  [Publisher] [PDF] [BibTeX]

中文发表 | In Chinese Journals

[6] "人才引进政策与地方政府竞争：特征事实与研究展望" (合作者:  王禹石, 张庆华) 

       经济管理学刊 (2026).  [Publisher] [PDF] [Extended Abstract in English]

[7] "人口流动与县域高中发展" (合作者:  郭小琳, 黄子彬, 张子哲, 赵楠) 

       世界经济 (2025).  [Publisher] [PDF].  Media coverage: [财新Caixin]

[8] "家庭教育支出与身心健康：对“双减”政策的效果评估" (合作者:  孟涓涓, 王辉, 张明山) 

       经济管理学刊 (2024).  [Publisher] [PDF] [Extended Abstract in English]

Teaching

Public Economics (undergraduate): 2022 - present.

Applied Econometrics (PhD): 2022 - present.

Structural Approach in Applied Micro (PhD lecture): 2022 - present.