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Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Assistant Professor, Division of Public Policy
Assistant Professor, Institute for Public Policy
Assistant Professor, HKUST Energy Institute

Yatang Lin

PhD in Economics, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Assistant Professor, Division of Public Policy
Assistant Professor, Institute for Public Policy
Assistant Professor, HKUST Energy Institute

Yatang Lin

PhD in Economics, The London School of Economics and Political Science

CEP Research Areas

Future of WorkGlobalization & GrowthDevelopment

Areas of Expertise

Environmental and Energy Economics, Urban Economics, International Trade and Development Economics

Biography

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.

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Research Affiliate Albert Francis Park (On Leave) Albert Park is a development and labor economist who is an expert on China’s economic development. He is Chair Professor of Economics, Chair Professor of Social Science, and Professor of Public Policy at HKUST. He has been appointed as Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). His research and commentary has appeared in the Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, China Daily, BBC, CNN, NBC, Bloomberg, Freakonomics, and NPR.
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Research Affiliate Hyuncheol Bryant Kim (on leave) Hyuncheol Bryant Kim is an applied empirical micro-economist focusing on causal impacts of policy interventions in health and education sectors through large scale data analysis and social experiment. The main goal of his research is to understand the fundamental relationship between human capital investment and individual and societal well being in Africa and Asia, which is insufficiently understood. He received an MD from Yonsei University, Korea, MPH from Seoul National University, Korea, and PhD in Economics from Columbia University, USA.
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Data Archive This Archive is set up to archive economics and business-related datasets collected by faculty and students at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
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Data Archive - China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES) Version year: 2018 Principal Investigator(s): Hong Cheng, Institute of Quality Development Strategy, Wuhan University; Yang Du, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Hongbin Li, Stanford University; Albert Francis Park, Department of Economics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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