Dr. Tianyu Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Security at the School of Labor and Human Resources. He received his PhD in Economics from Peking University. His research primarily focuses on the evaluation of pension and retirement policies in China and healthcare policies in China, and he also has a strong interest in gender economics, social networks, and education.

Selected Publications

1. Wang, Tianyu, Ruochen Sun, Jody L. Sindelar, and Xi Chen. "Occupational Differences in the Effects of Retirement on Hospitalizations for Mental Illness among Female Workers: Evidence from Administrative Data in China."  Economics & Human Biology  (2024): 101367.

2. Wang, Tianyu, Ke Wen, Qiuming Gao, and Ruochen Sun. "Small money, big change: The distributional impact of differentiated doctor's visit fee on healthcare utilization."  Social Science & Medicine 339 (2023): 116355.

3. Wang, Tianyu, Chuanyong Zhang, and Zhejin Zhao. "Gender differences in the housing decisions of married-couple families: evidence from urban China."  Applied Economics 55.30 (2023): 3527-3545.

4. Huang, Yana, and Tianyu Wang*. "MULAN in the name: Causes and consequences of gendered Chinese names."  China Economic Review 75 (2022): 101851.

5. Zhou, Y., Chen, S., Wang, T.*, & Cui, Q. (2022). Does education affect consumers' attitudes toward genetically modified foods? Evidence from China's two rounds of education reforms.  China Agricultural Economic Review , 14(3), 631-645.

6. Liu, K., Wang, T., Bai, C., & Liu, L. (2022). Strengthening local governance in health financing in China: a text-mining analysis of policy changes between 2009 and 2020.  Health Policy and Planning ,  37 (6), 677-689.

7. Rui Li, Tianyu Wang*, Mingshan Zhou. Entrepreneurship and Household Portfolio Choice: evidence from China Household Financial Survey.  Journal of Empirical Finance,  60(2021) .

8. Xi Chen, Tianyu Wang*, and Susan Busch. Does Money Relieve Depression? Evidence from Social Pension Expansions in China , Social Science & Medicine  220(2019).

9. Xuezheng Qin, Tianyu Wang, Castiel Zhuang. “Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital and Its Impact on Income Mobility: Evidence from China.”  China Economic Review , 38(2016).