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Dean Yang
Funded Research:
Channeling Remittances toward Human Capital Investment in Central America (Mueller)
Experiment on Direct Deposit and Commitments to Save in Malawi (World Bank)
The Economic Impacts of Migration: A Literature Review and a Framework for Innovations in Migration Policy (Qatar Foundation)
Savings, Subsidies and Sustainable Food Security in Mozambique: 2011 Post-Harvest Survey Supplement (USAID)
Channeling Remittances Toward Human Capital Accumulation (Inter-American Development Bank)
Supplement #1: Channeling Remittances Toward Human Capital Accumulation (Inter-American Development Bank)
Subsidies, Savings, and Sustainable Food Security: A Field Experiment in Mozambique (USAID)
Migration Trajectories (World Bank)
Financial Innovations to Stimulate Remittances and Savings: An Experimental Approach (NSF)
Supplement to Financial Innovations to Stimulate Remittances: An Experimental Approach (MacArthur Foundation)
Remittance and Financial Products Innovation Project (Banco Agricola)
Supplement to Biometric and Financial Innovations in Rural Malawi (USAID)
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
Gine, X., J. Goldberg, and Dean Yang. 2012. "Credit Market Consequences of Improved Personal Identification: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi." American Economic Review, 102(6): 2923-2954. DOI. Abstract.
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.
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 HwaJung Choi. 2007. "Are remittances insurance? Evidence from rainfall shocks in the Philippines." World Bank Economic Review, 21(2): 219-248. DOI. Abstract.