Yu (Alan) Yang | 杨 宇

Assistant Professor of Economics

Peking University | Guanghua School of Management

Email: alanyang@gsm.pku.edu.cn

Current Research

1. "On the Spatial Allocation of College Seats: Human Capital Production and the Distribution of Skilled Labor."  [PDF] [SSRN] [RePEc Archive]

2. "Sex and the City: Spatial Structural Changes and the Marriage Market."  [PDF] [SSRN]

Selected for presentation at the PHBS-IER 2025 Conference.  (with Min Fang, Zibin Huang, and Yushi Wang)

3. "A Dynamic Model of College Entrance and Completion."

  (with Douglas Harris and Christopher Taber)

4. "Sorting by Height: Preferences, Matching, and Income Inequality."

 (with Pierre-André Chiappori, David Ong, and Junsen Zhang)

Publications

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

The Economic Journal (2025), forthcoming.  (with Juanjuan Meng, Hui Wang, and Mingshan Zhang)

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

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

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

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

[In Chinese journals]:

4. "人口流动与县域高中发展." [PDF]

世界经济 (2025), 48:6, 220-248.  (合作者: 郭小琳 黄子彬 张子哲 赵楠)

5. "家庭教育支出与身心健康——对“双减”政策的效果评估." [PDF]

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

[Pre-doctoral work in international economics]:

6. "China and International Market Integration: Evidence From the Law of One Price in the Middle East and Africa." [PDF]

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

7. "Yen or Yuan? The Law of One Price and Economic Integration in Asia." [PDF]

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

8. "Assessing Market Integration in the ASEAN with Retail Price Data." [PDF]

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

Teaching

Public Economics (undergraduate): 2022 - present.

Applied Econometrics (PhD): 2022 - present.

Structural Approach in Labor Economics (PhD lecture): 2022, 2024.