Research

PUBLICATIONS

Kang, Le, Ziteng Lei, Yang Song, and Peng Zhang. "Gender differences in reactions to failure in high-stakes competition: Evidence from the national college entrance exam retakes." Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics (forthcoming)

Arslan, Hayri Alper, Yang Song, and Tong Wang. "Preference submission timing and college admission outcomes: Evidence from Turkey." Review of Economic Design 28, no. 1 (2024): 189-241. 

Liu, Haoyang, Yang Song, and Xiaohan Zhang. “Moving to Better Opportunities? Housing Market Responses to the Top X% Policy”. Regional Science and Urban Economics 97 (2022): 103829.

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina, Brandyn Churchill, and Yang Song. "Immigration enforcement and infant health." American Journal of Health Economics 8, no. 3 (2022): 323-358. IZA Working Paper version

Glewwe, Paul, Xianqiang Zou, and Yang Song. ”Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes in Rural China.“ Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 193 (2022): 294-311.

Kato, Takao, and Yang Song. "Advising, Gender, and Performance: Evidence from a University with Exogenous Adviser-Student Gender Match" Economic Inquiry 60.1 (2021): 121-141. 

previously circulated as “An Adviser Like Me: Does Gender Matter?” 

Ha, Wei, Le Kang, and Yang Song. "College Matching Mechanisms and Matching Stability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 175 (2020): 206-226. 

Liu, Xintong*, and Yang Song. "Comparing the Ethnicity Proxy and Residual Method: Applications to the State-level DREAM Acts and DACA." Eastern Economic Journal 46.1 (2020): 82-101. 

Song, Yang. “Sorting, School Performance, and Quality: Evidence from China.” Journal of Comparative Economics 47.1 (2019): 238-261.

Song, Yang. “Intended and unintended effects of student performance measurement reform in China.” China Economic Review 50 (2018): 133-152.

Song, Yang, George Loewenstein, and Yaojiang Shi. “Heterogeneous effects of peer tutoring: Evidence from rural Chinese middle schools.” Research in Economics 72.1 (2018): 33-48.

 (* indicates an undergraduate student coauthor)

WORKING PAPERS

Matching Mechanisms, Justified Envy, and College Admission Outcomes (with Wei Ha, Le Kang, and Sen Zhou) 

Information and Socioeconomic Gap in School Choice: Evidence from China (with Emily Gu*)