Researcher at Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW Mannheim)
Research Fellow of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics
Stone Center's Affiliated Scholar at the City University of New York
Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
L 7, 1 68161 Mannheim, Germany
@ZEWli.yang@zew.de
+49 30 89789 - 360
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Working Papers
NEW: Stationary Bandits, State Capacity, and the Malthusian Transition: The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion, with Weizheng Lai and L. Colin Xu, last updated in Jan 2024, under review Journal of Economic Growth. [VoxEu.org]
Towards equity and sustainability? China's pension system reform moves center stage, World Inequality Lab Working Paper, no. 2021/13.
Articles in Refereed Journals
NEW: Anti-Corruption Campaign in China: An Empirical Investigation, with Branko Milanovic and Yaoqi Lin, European Journal of Political Economy, 2024, forthcoming.
NEW: The Impact of Communist Party Membership on Wealth Distribution and Accumulation in Urban China, with Matteo Targa, World Development, 2024, forthcoming.
Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong-Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?, with Thomas Piketty, The World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36(4): 803–834.
From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: A study of Chinese urban elite transformation between 1988 and 2013 , with Branko Milanovic and Filip Novokmet, The British Journal of Sociology, 2021, 72 (3): 478-513. [ VoxEu.org]
Income Inequality and Ethnic Cleavages in Malaysia: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (1984-2014), with Muhammed A. Khalid, Journal of Asian Economics, 2021, 72, 101252.
Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015, with Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman, American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (7): 2469-2496. [VoxEU.org] [Chinese translation]
Memories of Colonial Law: The Inheritance of Human Capital and the Location of Joint Ventures in Early-Reform China, with Cheryl Long and Peter Murrell, China Economic Review, Volume(58), 2019, 101284.
From Communism to Capitalism: Private versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia, with Filip Novokmet, Thomas Piketty, and Gabriel Zucman, American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings, May 2018, 108:1-6. [VoxEu.org]
Technology Spillovers from Chinese Outward Direct Investment: The Case of Ethiopia, with Mebratu Seyoum and Renshui Wu, China Economic Review, April 2015, Vol. 33 (1):35-49.
Book Chapters and Other Publications
Inequality Perceptions and Redistributive Preferences: Literature Review and Proposal for the KLIPS Additional Survey, with Sunoong Hwang and Zhexun Mo, in Panel Data Quality Improvement Study (XIII), Lee, Kyung-Hee et al., 32--93. Sejong City, South Korea: Korea Labor Institute, 2023.
Teaching
Economic History of China on inequality (Short Course)
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 2022
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia 2023