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

Research

Noncognitive skills and gender gap in test scores

Applied Economics, 53.29 (2021): 3423-3437
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College Applications under Demand Uncertainty

This paper supersedes our previously circulated draft Sophistication and Cautiousness in College Applications
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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.
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Admission Mechanisms and Mismatches between Colleges and Students: Evidence from Large Field Data in China

Economics of Education Review, 68 (2019): 27-37.
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The Effects of State-level Pharmacist Regulations on Generic Substitution of Prescription Drugs

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

Intro Macro 2020

Intro Macro 2020
Feb 26, 2020 1 min read Teaching

Talk on coding practices for Central University of Finance and Economics

Talk on coding practices for Central University of Finance and Economics.
Dec 7, 2019 1 min read Teaching

Writing technical content in Academic

Academic is designed to give technical content creators a seamless experience. You can focus on the content and Academic handles the rest. Highlight your code snippets, take notes on math classes, and draw diagrams from textual representation.
Jul 12, 2019 4 min read

Tuning MATLAB Code

Tuning MATLAB Code
May 31, 2019 3 min read Teaching

Talk on coding practice for IESR, Jinan

Talk on coding practice for IESR, Jinan.
May 17, 2019 1 min read Teaching
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