Yu (Alan) Yang | 杨 宇
Assistant Professor of Economics
Peking University | Guanghua School of Management
Email: alanyang@gsm.pku.edu.cn
Assistant Professor of Economics
Peking University | Guanghua School of Management
Email: alanyang@gsm.pku.edu.cn
Welcome!
I'm an Assistant Professor at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.
I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021.
Research interests:
Labor Economics, Spatial Economics, Economics of Education, Demographic Economics.
CV [PDF]
"On the Spatial Allocation of College Seats: Human Capital Production and the Distribution of Skilled Labor." [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 Changes and the 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).
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, 144: 102434. [PDF]
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, 147: 41-57. [PDF]
[In Chinese]:
人口流动与县域高中发展. (w/ 郭小琳、黄子彬、张子哲、赵楠). 世界经济 , 2025, 48(6): 220-248. [PDF]
[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, 2020, 54: 101127. [PDF]
Yen or Yuan? The Law of One Price and Economic Integration in Asia. (w/ Vinh Dang and Kenneth Chan). The World Economy, 2018, 41: 171–193. [PDF]
Assessing Market Integration in the ASEAN with Retail Price Data. (w/ Vinh Dang). Pacific Economic Review, 2017, 22(4): 510-532. [PDF]