Welcome!

I am Tianyu, a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Yale University. My research studies the causes and consequences of inequality related to trade, development, and economic growth.

Contact me at tianyu.fan@yale.edu. Here is my Curriculum Vitae.

I expect to be on the job market this fall (2025/26).

Working Papers

The Labor Market Incidence of New Technologies
Links: [Paper] | [arXiv] | [SSRN]

Publications

Growing Like India: The Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth
with Michael Peters and Fabrizio Zilibotti
Econometrica, Vol. 91, No. 4, 2023
Links: [Published Version] | [Corrigendum] | [Working Paper] | [VoxDev] | [Ideas for India]

Work in Progress

The Geopolitical Determinants of Economic Growth, 1960 - 2019
Draft coming soon

Partial Automation
with Pascual Restrepo

Measuring Inflation Inequality with Incomplete Prices
with Olivia Ding and Kan Yao