Dean Yang

Research Fellow

University of Michigan

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Dean Yang is a Professor at the Department of Economics and the Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. His areas of interest include international migration and remittances, microfinance, human capital, disasters, international trade, and crime and corruption. He has been lead investigator on several randomized field experiments worldwide on migration, remittances, and microfinance. He teaches courses in development economics and microeconomics at the undergraduate, master’s, and Ph.D. levels. A native of the Philippines, he received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8523
Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration
David McKenzie, Dean Yang
published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 30(2), 155-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7629
Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
Catia Batista, Dan Silverman, Dean Yang
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 118, 2-21
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6498
Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
David McKenzie, Caroline Theoharides, Dean Yang
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6(2), 49-75.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5125
Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies
David McKenzie, Dean Yang
published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 249-269
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