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).  [PDF] [SSRN] [RePEc Archive]

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

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

• Sex and the City: Spatial Structural Change and Marriage Market.

(w/ Min Fang, Zibin Huang, and Yushi Wang). [PDF] [SSRN]

• A Dynamic Model of College Entrance and Completion.

     (w/ Douglas Harris and Christopher Taber).

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

     (w/ Jonas Jin and Xiaoyang Ye).

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

     Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 147 (2018): 41-57.

[In Chinese]:

• 人口流动与县域高中发展：基于县级教育财政数据的实证研究. 

     (合作者：郭小琳、黄子彬、张子哲、赵楠).  世界经济 , 已接收.

[Pre-doctoral work in international economics]:

• 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.