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Dean Yang
Funded Research:
Biometric and Financial Innovations in Rural Malawi (USAID)
Channeling Remittances Toward Human Capital Accumulation (Inter-American Development Bank)
Financial Innovations to Stimulate Remittances and Savings: An Experimental Approach (NSF)
Isolation, AIDS, and the Elderly: Data Collection and a Field Intervention in Malawi (PSC-Ford Funds)
Migration Trajectories (World Bank)
Remittance and Financial Products Innovation Project (Banco Agricola)
Savings, Subsidies and Sustainable Food Security in Mozambique: 2011 Post-Harvest Survey Supplement (USAID)
Subsidies, Savings, and Sustainable Food Security: A Field Experiment in Mozambique (USAID)
Supplement #1: Channeling Remittances Toward Human Capital Accumulation (Inter-American Development Bank)
Supplement to Biometric and Financial Innovations in Rural Malawi (USAID)
Supplement to Financial Innovations to Stimulate Remittances: An Experimental Approach (MacArthur Foundation)
Supplement: Financial Innovations to Stimulate Remittances and Savings: An Experimental Approach (Inter-American Development Bank)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Associate Professor, Economics.
Associate Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Ph.D., Harvard University
Dr. Yang's research deals with the economic problems of developing countries, focusing on international migration, micro-finance, disasters and risk, human capital, international trade, and crime and corruption.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Yang, Dean. 2011. "Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations." Journal of Economic Literature, 49(3): 767-770. Local Access.
Yang, Dean. 2011. "Migrant Remittances." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25(3): 129–52. DOI. Abstract.
Park, Albert F., Dean Yang, Xinzheng Shi, and Yuan Jiang. 2010. "Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis." Review of Economics and Statistics, 92(4): 822-842. Abstract. Local Access.
Gine, Xavier, and Dean Yang. 2009. "Insurance, credit, and technology adoption: Field experimental evidence from Malawi." Journal of Development Economics, 89(1): 1-11. DOI. Abstract.
Maccini, Sharon, and Dean Yang. 2009. "Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall." American Economic Review, 99(3): 1006-26. DOI. Abstract.
Yang, Dean. 2008. "Coping with Disaster: The Impact of Hurricanes on International Financial Flows, 1970-2002." B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 8 (1) Article 13. Abstract.
Yang, Dean. 2008. "Integrity for Hire: An Analysis of a Widespread Customs Reform." Journal of Law and Economics, 51 (1). DOI. Abstract.
Yang, Dean. 2008. "Can Enforcement Backfire? Crime Displacement in the Context of Customs Reform in the Philippines." Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(1): 1-14. DOI. Abstract.
Yang, Dean. 2008. "International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks." Economic Journal, 118(528): 591-630. DOI. Abstract.
Yang, Dean, and H. Choi. 2007. "Are remittances insurance? Evidence from rainfall shocks in the Philippines." World Bank Economic Review, 21(2): 219-248. DOI. Abstract.