“Matching Mechanisms, Justified Envy, and College Admission Outcomes,” with Le Kang, Wei Ha, and Sen Zhou. Previously circulated as “Matching Mechanisms and Justified Envy: Stability on the Intensive Margin.” Paper
“Field of Study and Early Career Trajectory in China: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design,” with Yibo Chen, Danqing Shen, and Jipeng Zhang
“Returns to Elite College Attendance in China,” with Le Kang and Guofeng Pan
“Understanding Charter School State Laws and Their Impacts on Charter School Turnover and Performance,” with Geoffrey Kocks
“Information Access and College Admission Outcomes,” with Le Kang and Li Chen. Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.
Kang, Le, Ziteng Lei, Yang Song, and Peng Zhang (2024). “Gender Differences in Reactions to Failure in High-Stakes Competition: Evidence from the National College Entrance Exam Retakes.” Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics 2(2): 355–397.
Published version · Ungated · VoxChina summary
Arslan, Hayri Alper, Yang Song, and Tong Wang (2024). “Preference submission timing and college admission outcomes: evidence from Turkey.” Review of Economic Design 28(1): 189–241.
Liu, Haoyang, Yang Song, and Xiaohan Zhang (2022). “Moving to better opportunities? Housing market responses to the top 4% policy.” Regional Science and Urban Economics 97: 103829.
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina, Brandyn Churchill, and Yang Song (2022). “Immigration Enforcement and Infant Health.” American Journal of Health Economics 8(3): 323–358.
Published version · Ungated (IZA DP 13908) · Tradeoffs coverage
Glewwe, Paul, Yang Song, and Xianqiang Zou (2022). “Labor market outcomes, cognitive skills, and noncognitive skills in rural China.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 193: 294–311.
Kato, Takao, and Yang Song (2022). “Advising, gender, and performance: Evidence from a university with exogenous adviser–student gender match.” Economic Inquiry 60(1): 121–141.
Published version · Working paper (IZA DP 11575)
Ha, Wei, Le Kang, and Yang Song (2020). “College matching mechanisms and matching stability: Evidence from a natural experiment in China.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 175: 206–226.
Liu, Xintong, and Yang Song (2020). “Comparing the Ethnicity Proxy and Residual Method: Applications to the State-level DREAM Acts and DACA.” Eastern Economic Journal 46(1): 82–101.
Song, Yang (2019). “Sorting, school performance and quality: Evidence from China.” Journal of Comparative Economics 47(1): 238–261.
Published version · Working paper
Song, Yang (2018). “Intended and unintended effects of student performance measurement reform in China.” China Economic Review 50: 133–152.
Song, Yang, George Loewenstein, and Yaojiang Shi (2018). “Heterogeneous effects of peer tutoring: Evidence from rural Chinese middle schools.” Research in Economics 72(1): 33–48.