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Yang Song
Assistant Professor of Economics
Economics of Education, Chinese Economy, Behavioral Economics, Poverty and Inequality.
Ha, Wei, Le Kang, and Yang Song. "College Matching Mechanisms and Matching Stability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 175 (2020): 206-226.
Liu, Xintong*, and Yang Song. "Comparing the Ethnicity Proxy and Residual Method: Applications to the State-level DREAM Acts and DACA." Eastern Economic Journal 46.1 (2020): 82-101.
Song, Yang. “Sorting, School Performance, and Quality: Evidence from China.” Journal of Comparative Economics 47.1 (2019): 238-261.
Song, Yang. “Intended and Unintended Effects of Student Performance Measurement Reform in China.” China Economic Review 50 (2018): 133-152.
Song, Yang, George Loewenstein, and Yaojiang Shi. “Heterogeneous Effects of Peer Tutoring: Evidence from Rural Chinese Middle Schools.” Research in Economics 72.1 (2018): 33-48.
(* indicates an undergraduate student coauthor)
Advising, Gender, and Performance: Evidence from a University with Exogenous Adviser-Student Gender Match (with Takao Kato), previously circulated as “An Adviser Like Me: Does Gender Matter?” Revise and Resubmit.
Matching Mechanisms, Justified Envy, and College Admission Outcomes (with Wei Ha, Le Kang, and Sen Zhou)
Moving to Better Opportunities? Housing Market Responses to the Top X% Policy (with Xiaohan Zhang and Haoyang Liu)
Labor Market Outcomes, Cognitive Skills, and Noncognitive Skills in Rural China (with Paul Glewwe, Xianqiang Zou)
Preference Submission Timing and College Admission Outcomes: Evidence from Turkey (with Alper Arslan and Tong Wang)
Immigration Enforcement and Infant Health (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Brandyn Churchill)
Information and Socioeconomic Gap in School Choice: Evidence from China (with Emily Gu*)
Early Life Exposure to Pollutants and Noncognitive Skills (with Isla Globus-Harris)
Picker Research Fellowship, Colgate University (2018-19)
Lampert Global Partnership Faculty Grant, Colgate University (2018-19)
Faculty Research Council Discretionary Grant, Colgate University (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, 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)
Organizing Committee, Chinese Education Finance and Policy Association (2020-21)
Founding Member, Chinese Education Finance and Policy Association
Referee service:
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter; China Economic Review; Economics & Human Biology; Eastern Economic Journal; International Journal of Educational Development; Journal of Comparative Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of the Japanese and International Economies; Review of Economics and Statistics.
Colgate University:
University of Pittsburgh:
Year | Presentations |
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2021 | Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Conference |
2020 | International Symposium on Human Capital and Labor Markets, Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Colgate 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, Colgate 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)