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Yang Song

Associate Professor of Economics; Director, Asian Studies Program

Department/Office Information

Economics, Asian Studies
220 Persson Hall
  • Ph.D. in Economics, M.A. in Economics, University of Pittsburgh
  • B.A. in International Economics and Trade, Renmin University of China

Economics of education, Chinese economy, behavioral economics, poverty and inequality.

Papers under Review and Working Papers

  1. Gender Differences in Reactions to Failure in High-Stakes Competition: Evidence from the National College Entrance Exam Retakes (with Le Kang, Ziteng Lei, Peng Zhang) Accepted by Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics
  2. Matching Mechanisms and Justi铿乪d Envy: Stability on the Intensive Margin (with Wei Ha, Le Kang, and Sen Zhou), previously circulated as 鈥淢atching Mechanisms, Justified Envy, and College Admission Outcomes鈥
  3. Information and Socioeconomic Gap in School Choice: Evidence from China (with Emily Gu*)

 

Publications

 

  1. Arslan, Hayri Alper, Yang Song, and Tong Wang. "Preference submission timing and college admission outcomes: Evidence from Turkey." Review of Economic Design (2023): 1-53.
  2. Liu, Haoyang, Yang Song, and Xiaohan Zhang. 鈥淢oving to Better Opportunities? Housing Market Responses to the Top X% Policy鈥. Regional Science and Urban Economics 97 (2022): 103829.
  3. Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina, Brandyn Churchill, and Yang Song. "Immigration enforcement and infant health." American Journal of Health Economics 8, no. 3 (2022): 323-358.
  4. Glewwe, Paul, Xianqiang Zou, and Yang Song. 鈥淐ognitive and Noncognitive Skills, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes in Rural China.鈥 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 193 (2022): 294-311.
  5. Kato, Takao, and Yang Song. 鈥淎dvising, Gender, and Performance: Evidence from a University with Exogenous Adviser-Student Gender Match鈥 Economic Inquiry 60.1 (2021): 121-141. 
  6. Ha, Wei, Le Kang, and Yang Song. 鈥淐ollege Matching Mechanisms and Matching Stability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China.鈥 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 175 (2020): 206-226. 
  7. Liu, Xintong*, and Yang Song. 鈥淐omparing the Ethnicity Proxy and Residual Method: Applications to the State-level DREAM Acts and DACA.鈥 Eastern Economic Journal 46.1 (2020): 82-101. 
  8. Song, Yang. 鈥淪orting, School Performance, and Quality: Evidence from China.鈥 Journal of Comparative Economics 47.1 (2019): 238-261.
  9. Song, Yang. 鈥淚ntended and Unintended Effects of Student Performance Measurement Reform in China.鈥 China Economic Review 50 (2018): 133-152.
  10. Song, Yang, George Loewenstern, and Yaojiang Shi. 鈥淗eterogeneous Effects of Peer Tutoring: Evidence from Rural Chinese Middle Schools.鈥 Research in Economics 72.1 (2018): 33-48.

(* indicates an undergraduate student coauthor)

Picker Research Fellowship, 新澳彩开奖结果 (2018-19)

Lampert Global Partnership Faculty Grant, 新澳彩开奖结果 (2018-19)

Faculty Research Council Discretionary Grant, 新澳彩开奖结果 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)

Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2014-15)

Jerome C. Wells Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh (2013-14)

Chou Fellowship for Economics, University of Pittsburgh (2010-12)

Academic Excellence Fellowship, Agricultural Bank of China (2009-10)

Visiting Scholar, Blueprint Labs, MIT (Fall 2023)

Visiting Scholar, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota (Spring 2019)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Education Policy Initiative, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan (Fall 2018)

Board of Directors, Chinese Economists Society (2022-23)

Organizing Committee, Chinese Education Finance and Policy Association (2020 - present)

Founding Member, Chinese Education Finance and Policy Association

Referee service:

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy; China Economic Review; Eastern Economic Journal; Econometrica; Economic Development and Cultural Change; Economic Inquiry; Economics & Human Biology; Economics of Education Review; Education Economics; Education Finance and Policy; European Economic Review; Evaluation Review; International Journal of Educational Development; Journal of Comparative Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Economic Geography; Journal of the Japanese and International Economies; Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; PlosOne; Research in Labor Economics; Review of Economics and Statistics; World Bank Economic Review.

新澳彩开奖结果:               

  • Honors Seminar (Fall 2021 - Spring 2021)
  • Seminar in Economics of Education (Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016)
  • Chinese Economy (Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016)
  • Introduction to Economics (Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015)
  • Core China (Fall 2020, Spring 2020)

University of Pittsburgh:       

  • Introduction to Microeconomic Theory (Summer 2014)
  • Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Microeconomic Theory (Fall 2012, Fall 2013)
Year Presentations
2021

Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Conference, Western Economic Association International Annual Meeting, Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Annual Conference, Econometric Society Asia Meeting, Econometric Society China Meeting, 6th IZA Economics of Education Workshop

2020

International Symposium on Human Capital and Labor Markets, Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, 新澳彩开奖结果 Social Science Luncheon Series, Western Economic Association Annual Conference, Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics Annual Conference, Jinan University, SUNY Buffalo

2019 University of Minnesota (APEC), International Conference on Human Capital and Economic Development in China (SUNY Buffalo), Econometric Society Asia Meeting, Econometric Society China Meeting, Hunan University, National University of Singapore, Hanyang University, University of Seoul, Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Annual Conference, University of Minnesota (APEC), Macalester College
2018 AEFP Annual Conference, University of Michigan CIERS, University of Michigan Labor Brownbag
2017 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Conference, Lehigh University, Econometrics Society Asia Meeting (CUHK), Transpacific Labor Society Annual Meeting in Osaka, 新澳彩开奖结果 Social Science Luncheon, AEFP Annual Conference, Chinese Economists Society Annual Conference
2016 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan University, Chinese Labor Economists Annual Conference, University of Michigan CIERS, Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Conference
2015 APPAM, Chinese Economists Society Annual Conference
2014 University of Michigan CIERS, University of Pittsburgh
2013 Ronald Coase Institute Workshop (Xiamen University), University of Chicago Socioeconomic Inequality Summer School (Poster), Pittsburgh Economics Medley (Poster), Carnegie Mellon University (CBDR Brownbag), University of Pittsburgh Grad Expo, University of Pittsburgh Applied Microeconomics Brownbag Series

(Including scheduled)