Development | Center for Economic Policy

Research Affiliate Yao Amber Li Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Associate Director, Center for Economic Development Professor Yao Amber Li is currently an Associate Professor of Economics in School of Business and Management, the Associate Director of Center for Economic Development and the Dean of Business & Management at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She has been serving as Vice-chairperson of the Standing Committee of CTRG (China Trade Research Group) since 2019 and Joint Secretary-General of the Secretariat of the Quality Alliance at Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau University Alliance since 2020.

Research Affiliate Wooyoung Lim Head and Professor, Department of Economics Prof. Lim's research interests are game theory and behavioral and experimental economics.

Publications The Role of Career and Wage Incentives in Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-stage Field Experiment in Malawi The paper studies how career and wage incentives affect labor productivity through self-selection and incentive effect channels using a two-stage field experiment in Malawi. By Hyuncheol Bryant Kim (on leave), Seonghoon Kim, Thomas Taek Sung KIM

Publications How does intergenerational investment respond to changes in the marriage market? Evidence from China By Li Han, Xinzheng Shi

Research Affiliate Li Han Associate Professor, Division of Social Science Li Han is associate professor of economics in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 2008. Her primary fields are development economics and political economy. Her research interests include political economy in authoritarian regimes and public policy issues in developing economies. Her studies on political economy mainly focus on political selection and incentives of politicians in the Chinese context.

Research Affiliate Wen Wang Assistant Professor, Division of Social Science Wen Wang is an assistant professor in the division of social science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She holds a PhD in Economics from Duke University. She specializes in environmental economics and urban economics, and also has interests in industrial organization and public economics. She works on developing new methods for non-market valuation of local public goods and amenities, with a particular focus on real estate market and models of residential sorting.

Publications The Borrowing Puzzle: Why Do Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, China Borrow Rather than Dissave? By Wooyoung Lim

Publications The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires: Human Capital in China By Joshua Graff Zivin, Yingquan Song, Qu Tang, Peng Zhang, Tong Liu

Research Affiliate Yatang Lin Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Assistant Professor, Division of Public Policy
Assistant Professor, Institute for Public Policy
Assistant Professor, HKUST Energy Institute Yatang Lin received her Ph.D. in Economics from London School of Economics in 2017 and joined HKUST in the same year. Her research areas are urban economics and environmental economics.

Seminar, Lecture, Talk Panel Discussion on Opening Schools in Hong Kong in the Time of COVID Hong Kong’s success with the COVID-19 pandemic has gone hand-in-hand with strict measures, including early and repeated school closure. What is the rationale for closing schools, and what are arguments for opening them, and possibly keeping them open even if a new wave hits?

Mrs Belinda Greer, Prof. Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Prof. Sujata Visaria
2021-04-16
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Vaccination