Dennis Tao Yang Profile Continued

Recent Research

Selected Publications


"Education and Allocative Efficiency: Household Income Growth during Rural Reforms in China," revised for Journal of Development Economics
"Human Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Farm Household Earnings" (with Mark An), revised for Journal of Development Economics
"Factor Market Liberalization and Returns to Education in Rural China," forthcoming in Anjini Kochar and Mark Rosenzweig eds., New Research on Education in Developing Countries, University of Chicago Press
"The Political Economy of China's Rural-Urban Divide" (with Cai Fang), forthcoming in Nick Hope and Dennis Yang eds., Policy Reform in China, University of Chicago Press
"Carrots and Sticks: Fertility Effects of China's Population Policies" (with Marjorie McElroy), American Economic Review, Proceedings, 2000
Rural-Urban Disparity and Sectoral Labor Allocation in China (with Hao Zhou), Journal of Development Studies, 1999
"On the Causes of China's Agricultural Crisis and the Great Leap Famine" (with Justin Lin), China Economic Review, 1998
"China's Land Arrangements and Rural Local Mobility," China Economic Review, 1997
"The Effects of Institutions on Worker Mobility and Labor Market Efficiency," in The Reformability of China's State Sector, ed. James Wen. World Scientific Publisher, 1997
"Education and Off-Farm Work," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1997