Li Yang

Li Yang is an advanced researcher at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. 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. and a Marie Curie research fellow at Paris School of Economics. He was also the coordinator for East and South Asia at the World Inequality Lab.

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, World Development, The World Bank Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, and The British Journal of Sociology. His findings have also widely been discussed in diverse media outlets, such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg News. He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 2019 from Xiamen University, China.