Dennis T. Yang

About

Dennis T. Yang is the Dale S. Coenen Free Enterprise Professor of Business Administration and academic director of Darden’s Asia Initiative at UVA Darden School of Business. His teaching includes First Year MBA and EMBA core classes, as well as Second Year electives focused on emerging markets. His research primarily concentrates on economic development and growth, labor economics, and economic transition, with particular emphasis on China. His work covers topics such as household behavior, education, savings, poverty, famine, long-term growth, China's population policies, wage structure, and income distribution. Yang has published in leading economics journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Development Economics. He has held positions worldwide, including senior research fellowships at institutions such as the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peking University, and Tsinghua University, and has served as president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies. He has also undertaken consulting work for organizations like the World Bank and The Conference Board. A native of China, Yang earned his undergraduate degree from UCLA and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. Before joining Darden in 2012, he served on the economics faculty at Duke University, Virginia Tech, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Business
• Macroeconomics
• Financial economics
• Labour economics
• Monetary economics

Selected publications

• CHANGES IN CHINA'S WAGE STRUCTURE

  Journal of the European Economic Association · 2014-01-28 · 169 citations

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  Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure during a period of rapid economic growth. Between 1992 and 2007, the average real wage increased by 202%, accompanied by a sharp rise in wage inequality. Decomposition analysis reveals 80% of this wage growth to be attributable to higher pay for basic labor, rising returns to human capital, and increases in the state-sector wage premium. By employing an aggregate production function…

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• Expanding export variety: The role of institutional reforms in developing countries

  Journal of Development Economics · 2015-09-26 · 63 citations

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• Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2017-01-01 · 11 citations

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• MANDATORY RETIREMENT AND THE CONSUMPTION PUZZLE: DISENTANGLING PRICE AND QUANTITY DECLINES

  Economic Inquiry · 2017-05-12 · 10 citations

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  This study investigates changes in household consumption at retirement based on a comprehensive, diary‐based household survey from China. We focus on disentangling price changes from quantity changes at retirement. The mandatory retirement policy in China provides a quasi‐experimental setting for nonparametric identification of the true causal effects of fully anticipated retirement. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that food expenditure declines at retirement, particularly among…

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• China's Economic Development

  Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2014-01-01 · 8 citations

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  This collection of papers is from Palgrave's journal Comparative Economic Studies, carefully selected by a team of expert editors, this volumes collates the most sophisticated works to provide the rea

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Frequent coauthors

• Junsen Zhang

  10 shared

• Suqin Ge

  Virginia Tech

  9 shared

• Liugang Sheng

  9 shared

• Xiaodong Zhu

  University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

  8 shared

• Justin Yifu Lin

  National Development and Reform Commission

  6 shared

• Mark Yuying An

  University of Hong Kong

  6 shared

• Dandan Chen

  Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine

  5 shared

• Josef C. Brada

  4 shared

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