Yang Wang

As a health economist, my research focuses on understanding how individuals make health-related decisions, the implications of their decision-making process for policy-makers, and health effects of various public policies. As an affiliate of the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE), I have worked on projects related to the research areas of Health and the Life Course and the Demography of Inequality. On Health and the Life Course, I have looked into effects of subjective longevity expectations on adult smokers’ smoking decision, effects of time-inconsistent preferences on adult women’s mammography decision, and effects of Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) on maternal smoking and child cognitive ability and quality of home environment. On the Demography of Inequality, my projects have examined the heterogeneous health effects of EITC and minimum wage by race/ethnicity, marital status, and educational attainment.

CDE Research Area Affiliations:

Demography of Inequality; Health and the Life Course

Selected Publications:

Sims, Kaitlyn M., Yang Wang, and Barbara Wolfe. “Estimating impacts of the US EITC program on domestic violence.” Review of Economics of the Household (2024): 1-31.

Cao, Ying, Yang Wang, John Mullahy, Marguerite Burns, Yao Liu, and Maureen Smith. “The Relative Importance of Hospital Discharge and Patient Composition in Changing Post-Acute Care Utilization and Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries.” Health Services Insights 16 (2023): 11786329231166522.