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Biography

Dennis Yang

Dennis Yang

Dennis T. Yang is Professor of Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is also Senior Advisor to The Conference Board China Center for Economics and Business and Senior Fellow of the Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua University. He was previously a member of the faculty in economics at Duke University, where he also served as the Associate Director of the Center for Chinese Populations and Socioeconomic Studies. His main research interests are economic development and growth, labor and demographic economics, and the economics of China and transition. He has published widely in top academic journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Comparative Economics. Professor Yang is the co-editor of two books on economic reforms in China and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of several international economic journals. Dr. Yang obtained his undergraduate degree at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

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