Political Economy. Prize Fellow at Harvard and J-PAL. Assistant Professor at Harvard Economics Department from 2020.
Joined May 2008
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16 Jun 2019
Wait til 25s when night falls. Civil liberty shines through one of the most impressive urban backdrops.
16 Jun 2019
Check out this v cool time lapse of the huge crowds by @karsonwhy at the #HongKongProtest
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16 Jun 2019
Another gigantic protest in HK today. Do you head the people sing? Singing a song of angry men.
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15 Jun 2019
We wrote this 2 years ago, becoming even more relevant today. China's trilemma in Hong Kong -- paradoxically, protests are absolutely critical to the stability of Hong Kong’s political equilibrium. blogs.lse.ac.uk/management/2…
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9 Jun 2019
1.03 million (1 out of 7) people took to the street in Hong Kong today to protect its autonomy. Largest protest turnout since 1989! Collective actions are the most spectacular scene that demonstrates the power of mankind.
9 Jun 2019
Stunning image of the protest in #HongKong today (just posted on @AppleDaily_HK's Instagram account.) Many we spoke to said it was the first time they joined a protest & felt a proposed extradition law would so fundamentally alter the city's freedoms that they couldn't sit back.
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David Yang retweeted
28 May 2019
After 30 years, a former People’s Liberation Army journalist who saw the Tiananmen massacre is speaking out: "Everyone who took part must speak up about what they know happened. That’s our duty to the dead, the survivors and the children of the future.” nyti.ms/2I23i1L
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29 Jan 2019
We are hiring! Part-time RA: davidyyang.com/pdfs/RA_partt…; 2-year post-doc: davidyyang.com/pdfs/Postdoc_…. Please forward to those who may be interested!
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David Yang retweeted
2 Jan 2019
Chart showing which country appeared most in New York Times headlines every month since 1900: pudding.cool/2018/12/countri…
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16 Dec 2018
“About 6 million Chinese either suffer from or have already died from pneumoconiosis, or dust-caused lung damage that includes silicosis.” reuters.com/article/us-china…
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David Yang retweeted
12 Dec 2018
The brand-new chapter on behavioral development economics by Michael Kremer, @raogautam, and @FrankSchilbach is now online! Heroic piece of work that will help the field set the agenda for the coming years. economics.mit.edu/files/1649…
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David Yang retweeted
6 Dec 2018
The earth’s economic centre of gravity took nearly 2000 years to move to Europe.
It is just taking 50 years to go back to Asia.
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19 Nov 2018
The Land That Failed to Fail — a remarkable series on China by @panphil on @nytimes nyti.ms/2Duc480?smid=nytcore…
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11 Nov 2018
“Maybe it’s no coincidence,” Ms. Lafrenz, now 99, told Der Spiegel. “We are dying out and at the same time everything is coming back again.” nyti.ms/2yXovGo?smid=nytcore…
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David Yang retweeted
8 Nov 2018
Cool piece @vox_dev on media bias. "Increasing competition in newspaper mkt has meant that propaganda through the mktplace has become less effective." In response Chinese govt switched to social media for propaganda (more concentrated & directly regulated) voxdev.org/topic/institution…
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David Yang retweeted
25 Oct 2018
If you are interested in our #VoxDevTalks series, take a look at all of them! A big thanks to @timsvengali for being such a great partner with @vox_dev on these.
audioboom.com/channels/49707…
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David Yang retweeted
13 Oct 2018
The way most global maps are drawn makes countries away from the equator appear artificially large (because it projects a round globe onto a flat map).
This animation shows how countries would look in true size:
Via @randal_olson
reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful…
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David Yang retweeted
29 Sep 2018
The capitalist government calls itself communist and teaches communism but crushes students who act like communists instead of capitalists. Students who call themselves communists but act like capitalists are okay though unless they also act like democrats nyti.ms/2NPExM6?smid=nytcore…
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20 Sep 2018
Such a strange story on so many dimensions...
My take on the bizarre story behind a Buddhist temple in Taiwan that's been converted into something likely never before seen on the island: a massive shrine to the Chinese Communist Party nyti.ms/2DcXpQi
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14 Sep 2018
“It provides the clearest and most convincing explanation of how information is controlled in today’s China. This is especially valuable because most ideas about censorship in China rest on fundamental misunderstandings.”
13 Sep 2018
Very excited to see Censored reviewed by @iandenisjohnson in the New York Review of Books! nybooks.com/articles/2018/09… @nybooks
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