Profile

Yuhao Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the Institute of Economics and Management. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in 2022. His field is labor economics, and his research interests include using causal inference methods to study topics such as education, family and marriage, and social norms.

Education

2016 – 2022,University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Ph.D. in Economics

2012 – 2015,University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Bachelor of Arts, Double Major in Economics and Mathematics; Minor in Statistics

Research Achievements (Partly)

1. Greg Howard, Russell Weinstein, and Yuhao Yang. Do Universities Improve Local Economic Resilience? Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics.

2. Wang, Xin; Yang, Yuhao (Corresponding Author); Zhu, Huan; Wen, Chuanhao. “Industrial Investment and Regional Economic Growth: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design Based on the Third Front Construction.” The Journal of World Economy, 2022, 45(06): 136–158.

3. Mark Borgschulte and Yuhao Yang. Older and Wiser? Gender Norms and Relative Age In Marriage. Under Review.

4. Yuhao Yang and Xinze Li. Payment to Ecosystem Services and Heterogeneous Responses In the Long-run: Evidence from Grain-for-Green in China. Working Paper.