Yuanning Liang - Assistant Professor, School of Economics at Peking University
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Yuanning Liang

Hello, welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Economics at Peking University.

My areas of specialization are environmental economics, biodiversity, urban and transportation economics.

I received my Ph.D. from the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.

You can find my CV here.

Publications

Do Safety Inspections Improve Safety? Evidence from the Roadside Inspection Program for Commercial Vehicles

Yuanning Liang

Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, Forthcoming

Economic Activity and Biodiversity in the United States

Yuanning Liang, Ivan Rudik and Eric Zou

Journal of Public Economics, Volume 250, (2025), 105482

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Conservation Cobenefits from Air Pollution Regulation: Evidence from Birds

Yuanning Liang, Ivan J. Rudik, Eric Zou, Alison Johnston, Amanda D. Rodewald, Catherine L. Kling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, no. 49 (2020): 30900-30906.

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Tightening Belts to Buy a Home: Consumption Responses to Rising Housing Prices in Urban China

Andrew Waxman, Yuanning Liang, Shanjun Li, Panle Jia Barwick, and Meng Zhao

Journal of Urban Economics, 115: 103190, (2020).

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Working Papers

Healing Nature at Scale and Return: Lessons from China’s Ecological Restoration

Guojun He, Yuanning Liang, Yuhang Pan, Jianwei Xing, Jintao Xu, Zheng Zhong, Eric Zou

Ecological Costs of Energy Infrastructure: Evidence from Millions of Migratory Birds

Qiangyuan Chen, Jianmin Li, Yuanning Liang, Weiping Zhao, Yunqian Cheng, Tian Huang

Revise and resubmit, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Decentralization and Environmental Regulation: Evidence from China's Legislative Decentralization Reform

Zhenhuan Lei, Yuanning Liang, Jianwei Xing, Shilong Zhuang

Teaching

Intermediate Microeconomics —— 2022 to 2025

Environmental Economics —— 2022 to 2025