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Dean Yang
Researcher at University of Michigan
Publications - 110
Citations - 9507
Dean Yang is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Remittance & Exchange rate. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 107 publications receiving 8523 citations. Previous affiliations of Dean Yang include World Bank & National Bureau of Economic Research.
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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined Philippine households' responses to overseas members' economic shocks and found that these positive income shocks lead to enhanced human capital accumulation and entrepreneurship in migrants' origin households.
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International Migration, Remittances and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants’ Exchange Rate Shocks*
TL;DR: In this paper, the estimated elasticity of Philippine-peso remittances with respect to the exchange rate is 0.60, and the authors found that positive migrant shocks lead to enhanced human capital accumulation and entrepreneurship in origin households.
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Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall. NBER Working Paper No. 14031.
Sharon L. Maccini,Dean Yang +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974, and found that higher early-life rainfall has large positive effects on the adult outcomes of women, but not of men.
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Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
Sharon L. Maccini,Dean Yang +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of weather shocks around the time of birth on the adult health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian women and men born between 1953 and 1974.
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Insurance, credit, and technology adoption : field experimental evidence from Malawi.
Xavier Gine,Dean Yang,Dean Yang +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors implemented a randomized field experiment to ask whether provision of insurance against a major source of production risk induces farmers to take out loans to adopt a new crop technology.