Dr YangYang Shen

Research Associate
ophi@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Biography

YangYang is a Research Associate at OPHI. She joined OPHI in 2014 and worked as a Research Officer until 2016. Now, she mainly works on research projects relating to multidimensional poverty in China.

Yangyang works as an associate professor in the School of Business at Beijing Normal University, and a researcher in the China Institute for Income Distribution (CIID) in Beijing Normal University.

After her PhD in Economics, she continued working on poverty analysis in China, including income/consumption poverty, multidimensional poverty, and relative poverty. 

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  • Education

    PhD and Masters Degree in Economics, Nankai University, China

  • Research interests

    Human development and welfare economics; measurement and analysis of Multidimensional welfare, poverty and public policy, economic growth and poverty reduction.

  • Selected publications

    Zhou Y., Huang, X., Shen, Y. and Tian, L. (2023). 'Does targeted poverty alleviation policy lead to happy life? Evidence from rural China.', China Economic Review, 2023, 81: 102037.

    Shen, Y., and Alkire, S. (2022). 'Exploring China’s Potential Child Poverty', China & World Economy, 2022, 30(1): 82-10. 

    Shen Y. Rural Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in China. Singapore: Springer, 2022.