Yu (Alan) Yang | 杨 宇

Assistant Professor of Economics

Peking University | Guanghua School of Management

Email: alanyang@gsm.pku.edu.cn

Working Papers

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

2. "Education Competition and Fertility Intention: Evidence from China’s Private Tutoring Ban."  (with Juanjuan Meng, Hui Wang, and Mingshan Zhang).

Revise & Resubmit at The Economic Journal.  [PDF] [SSRN]

3. "Sex and the City: Spatial Structural Changes and the Marriage Market."  (with Min Fang, Zibin Huang, and Yushi Wang).

Accepted at PHBS-IER 2025 Conference.  [PDF] [SSRN]

4. "A Dynamic Model of College Entrance and Completion."  (with Douglas Harris and Christopher Taber).

Publications

1. "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.  [PDF]

2. "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.  [PDF]

[In Chinese journals]:

3. “人口流动与县域高中发展 (Population 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.  [PDF] [Extended abstract in English]

[Pre-doctoral work in international economics]:

4. "China and International Market Integration: Evidence From the Law of One Price in Middle East and Africa."  (with Vinh Dang, Erin So, and Kenneth Chan).

North American Journal of Economics and Finance (2020), 54, 101127.  [PDF]

5. "Yen or Yuan? The Law of One Price and Economic Integration in Asia."  (with Vinh Dang and Kenneth Chan).

The World Economy (2018), 41, 171–193.  [PDF]

6. "Assessing Market Integration in the ASEAN with Retail Price Data."  (with Vinh Dang).

Pacific Economic Review (2017), 22:4, 510-532.  [PDF]

Teaching

Public Economics (undergraduate): 2022 - present.

Applied Econometrics (PhD): 2022 - present.

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