Wei Yang

Biography

Wei Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of North Dakota, where he has been a faculty member since 2014. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from McMaster University in 2012. His research focuses on family economics, demographic behavior, social capital, and applied microeconomics, with particular interest in fertility, marriage markets, kinship systems, and social behavior in China.

Dr. Yang’s work has been published in journals including Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Applied Economics, Education Economics, and Economics Letters. His recent research examines sibling effects on fertility behavior, family continuity, and demographic responses to institutional and social change.