Yifan Wang
MRes/PhD Student, Department of Economics, LSE
Yifan Wang is an MRes/PhD student in Economics at London School of Economics. He also obtained MSc in Economics from LSE. He completed his undergraduate study at Peking University, Health Science Center and Guanghua School of Management, where he studies Medicine, Management, and English. He is broadly interested in topics of Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Labor Economics.
Recent work by Yifan Wang
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Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China
China’s solar subsidies triggered innovation and learning-by-doing that dramatically lowered global solar costs while generating domestic economic gains large enough to outweigh the subsidy costs, showing that green industrial policy can simultaneous...
Published 05.03.26
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Managing flood risk: Lessons from China’s Flood Detention Basin policy
Should we intentionally expose certain areas to higher risks to protect broader regions from disasters? Evidence from China suggests that although areas specifically designated to bear higher flood risk experience economic losses, the overall economi...
Published 29.08.24