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 Shocks and Talent Allocation." (with Yang Lyu, Jimmy Mingzhi Xu, and Xiaoyang Ye)

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

[3] "When Rankings Fail." (with 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), accepted.  [Publisher] [PDF] [SSRN] [BibTeX]

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

     (with Min Fang, Zibin Huang, and Yushi Wang) 

     International Economic Review (2026), 67:5, forthcoming.  [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [BibTeX] [Media coverage: VoxChina]

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

     (with Juanjuan Meng, Hui Wang, and Mingshan Zhang) 

     The Economic Journal (2026), 136:676, 1504-1526.  [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [BibTeX]

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

     (with David Ong and Junsen Zhang) 

     Journal of Development Economics (2020), 144, 102434.  [Publisher] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [BibTeX]

[5] "Collaboration Incentives: Endogenous Selection into Single and Coauthorships by Surname Initials." 

     (with David Ong, Ho Fai Chan, and Benno Torgler) 

     Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2018), 147, 41-57.  [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｜Talent Policy and Government Competition: Stylized Facts and Future Research." 

     (合作者:  王禹石, 张庆华) 

     经济管理学刊 (2026), 5:2, 89-132.  [Publisher] [PDF] [Extended Abstract in English] [BibTeX]

[7] "人口流动与县域高中发展｜Migration and the Development of Rural High Schools." 

     (合作者:  郭小琳, 黄子彬, 张子哲, 赵楠) 

     世界经济 (2025), 48:6, 220-248.  [Publisher] [PDF] [BibTeX]

[8] "家庭教育支出与身心健康：对“双减”政策的效果评估｜Education Expenditure and Health: Effect of China’s Private Tutoring Ban." 

     (合作者:  孟涓涓, 王辉, 张明山) 

     经济管理学刊 (2024), 3:1, 27-54.  [Publisher] [Extended Abstract in English] [PDF] [BibTeX]

Teaching

Public Economics (undergraduate): 2022 - present.

Applied Econometrics (PhD): 2022 - present.

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