Fang (Annie) Yang

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University at Albany


  

        Research Interests

 

               Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Growth and Development, Wealth Inequality, Education

 

 

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Research

 

Publications

·       Consumption Over the Life Cycle: How Different is Housing? Review of Economic Dynamics 12(3): 423-443, 2009

·       “American Dream or American Obsession? The Economic Benefits and Costs of Homeownership,” with Wenli Li, Business Review, Q3, 20-30, 2010

·       Accounting for Gender Gap in College Attainment (with Suqin Ge) Appendix, forthcoming, Economic Inquiry

 

Working papers

·       Accounting for the Heterogeneity in Retirement Wealth (earlier version: Center for Retirement Research Working Paper 2009-6) 

·       Social Security Reform with Impure Intergenerational Altruism

·       Consumption and Time Use over the Life Cycle, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Working Paper 10-37 (with Michael Dotsey and Wenli Li)

·       How Do Households Portfolios Vary with Age?

·       Policy Reforms, Housing, and Wealth Inequality

·       Limited Enforcement, Private Information, and Risk Sharing (with Hengjie Ai)

 

Work in Progress

·   Home Production and Social Security Reform, with Michael Dotsey and Wenli Li

·   Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher Education: An Exploratory Model (with John B. Jones)

·   Financial Reform and Housing Prices (with Betty C. Daniel)

·  Empirical Relevancy of Habit Formation Preferences, with Zongwu Cai and Xuan Liu

·  Estate Taxes, Wealth Inequality, and Intergenerational Links (with Marco Cagetti and Mariacristina De Nardi)

·   Labor Supply of Married Household: a Gender Specific Analysis, with Suqin Ge

 

 

 

Teaching  

·       Intermediate Macroeconomics (Undergraduate Course)

·       Advanced Macroeconomics II (Ph. D. Course)

 

 

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Contact Information

 

Department of Economics

Business Administration Building

Room 109

University at Albany

State University of New York

Albany, NY 12222


PH: 518-591-8537

FX: 518-442-4736

Email: fyang@albany.edu