Wang Yan, Lecturer, Department of Economics

 

He received his Phd in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his undergraduate degree was in Economics from Beijing Jiaotong University. He mainly engaged in quantitative macroeconomics research, focusing on economic growth, income and wealth distribution, public finance as well as the market structure and enterprise R&D investment decisions.

 

His thesis was on China's economic growth and the evolution of income and wealth distribution. The economic growth chapter mainly analyzed the economic and institutional reasons for China's rapid economic growth since the early 1990s, including rural and urban population mobility, the rise of the private economy, and the accumulation of non-public capital. The paper forecasted the future slowdown of economic growth and simulated the impact of different reforms in the labor market and the capital market on economic development.

 

In the chapter on income and wealth distribution, the intergenerational general equilibrium model with rich heterogeneity is used to explain the evolution of Chinese residents' income and wealth distribution from 1989 to 2015, as well as the change of China's urban-rural income gap. In addition, Dr. Wang and his collaborators focused on the reform of China's pension system in the context of an aging population and slowing economic growth.

 

Wen Qiao, Lecturer, Department of Economics

 

She majored in Educational Economics from Columbia University and graduated from Stanford University and Peking University with master's degree and bachelor's degree. Her main research areas are Labor Economics, Development Economics and Quantitative Social Science Methods. In recent years, she has published many papers in academic journals such as Evaluation Review, Journal of Educational Change and Modern Management Science.

 

Wen Qiao's doctoral thesis used a combination of causal inference methods and general equilibrium models to estimate the impact of China's college enrollment expansion on individual wages and employment, as well as the income structure of the labor market. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the National Academy of Education Doctoral Dissertation Award.

 

Current research of Wen Qiao involves the use of randomized controlled trials to assess the local treatment effectiveness of a series of small-scale interventions and to infer policy changes and the general equilibrium effects of large-scale interventions.

 

 

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