Biography

Yan Song is an associate professor in Department of Economics, Shandong University. His research areas are education and health economics, with a focus on how individuals deviate from rationality when making decisions in education and healthcare contexts.

Interests

  • Health Economics
  • Education Economics

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2016

    McGill University

  • M.A, Economics, 2011

    University of Toronto

  • B.A, Economics, 2010

    Sun Yat-sen University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor

Department of Economics,Shandong University

Jul 2022 – Present Jinan, China
 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

Institute of Economic and Social Research, Jinan University

Jul 2016 – Dec 2021 Guangzhou, China

Publication

Noncognitive skills and gender gap in test scores

Applied Economics, 53.29 (2021): 3423-3437
DOI

Media Attention and Choice of Major: Evidence from Violence Against Doctors in China

Journal of Economic and Behavior Organization, 170(2020):1-19, lead article.
DOI

Admission Mechanisms and Mismatches between Colleges and Students: Evidence from Large Field Data in China

Economics of Education Review, 68 (2019): 27-37.
DOI

The Effects of State-level Pharmacist Regulations on Generic Substitution of Prescription Drugs

Health Economics, 27.11 (2018): 1717-1737.
DOI

Working Papers

Knowing more and Step by step: Correlation neglect under preference uncertainty in centralized school choices

Revise and Resubmit at Games and Economic Behavior
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Extrapolative Households and Strategic Firms: Evidence from China’s Land and Housing Market

Under review
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College Applications under Demand Uncertainty

Under review
DOI

Grants & Funding

  • Shandong Province Natural Science Grant (Grant No.ZR2023QG082), 2024-2026, Principal Investigator

  • National Natural Science General Grant (Grant No.72473081), 2025-2028, Participating

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.72442002), 2025-2028, Participating