Yaming Cao

Welcome! My name is Yaming Cao. 

I am a (tenure-track) researcher at the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. I earned my PhD from The Ohio State University. 

I specialize in public, health, and labor economics, especially in topics related to healthcare, social insurance, and family policies. 

My research examines the economic challenges of population aging:

1. How can we reduce the high financial burden of healthcare demand in an aging society? I study healthcare system efficiency, social insurance design, and the drivers of healthcare expenditure.

2. How can we offset the decline in labor supply caused by low fertility among younger generations? I study the joint determination of fertility and women's labor supply, examining how family policy shapes the tradeoff between work and children.

I will join Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, School of Social Science, as Assistant Professor of Economics (Tenure-Track) in 2027 January.

Institutional profile: [Link] 

Contact: Yaming.Cao@zew.de

Address: Office 329, L7 1, 68161 Mannheim, Germany

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