David Yang

Wait til 25s when night falls. Civil liberty shines through one of the most impressive urban backdrops.

Another gigantic protest in HK today. Do you head the people sing? Singing a song of angry men.

@QianNancyNanYun Duck your head when you pass by street crossings like this one ;)

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/201…

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.

#hongkongers are making history today. All lanes of the Hennessy Road - including those which police refused to open before - are flooded by protesters against the #extraditionbill @SCMPNews

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

We are hiring! Part-time RA: davidyyang.com/pdfs/RA_partti…; 2-year post-doc: davidyyang.com/pdfs/Postdoc_Y…. Please forward to those who may be interested!

@DSchindlerEcon @ryancbriggs And to be conservative we obtained 4 IRBs from all institutions involved (Stanford, Berkeley, LMU and HKUST)

@ryancbriggs @david_yang gave a very convincing answer to this concern at his presentation at the #ASSA meetings. David, do you want to repeat (I am afraid to get your precise argument wrong)?

@DSchindlerEcon @ryancbriggs (1) we provide truthful info so people could make better calibrated decisions; and (2) we timed the experiment so that we only elicit protest outcomes when it was clear that there was no repercussion from protesting and govt was not cracking down

Chart showing which country appeared most in New York Times headlines every month since 1900: pudding.cool/2018/12/countr…

“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-chi…

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/16499

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.

The Land That Failed to Fail — a remarkable series on China by ⁦@panphil⁩ on ⁦@nytimes⁩ nyti.ms/2Duc480?smid=n…

@alexoimas @aislinnbohren Congratulations!!!

“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=n…

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/institut…

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…