Li Yang

Li Yang is a research associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). He is also a research fellow of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics. Previously, he was a researcher in the World Bank DEC research group in Washington D.C. from 2013 to 2017, and a Marie Curie research fellow at Paris School of Economics from 2018 to 2020. He was also the coordinator for East and South Asia at the World Inequality Lab from 2018 to 2021.

His main research interests pertain to income and wealth inequality, economic history, and political economy. His research has been published in leading scientific journals in both economics and sociology, such as American Economic Review, The World Bank Economic Review, China Economic Review, and The British Journal of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 2019 from Xiamen University, China.