Background and Previous Experience
Dr. Xiaoyan Yuan is a post-doctoral scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, a visiting scholar at Renmin University of China, and a member of Chinese Women Economists. She has authored articles about gender discrimination, immigration, and marriage matching which have been published in a number of Chinese journals.
Dr. Yuan is also director of two projects financed by the National Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Education of China. Her first project focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of metropolitan cities by studying the immigration behavior of families crossing cities and regions. She also plans to study how marriage and city size affect labor mobility. She believes this research will help clarify the relationship between marriage, urban size, and labor mobility, and will help provide a new perspective for appropriate routes and patterns for urbanization of China. The second project focuses on the welfare of women, with the intention to construct a new theoretical framework based on gender differences and explore some validity measures to improve women’s welfare in China.
While at ILR, Dr. Yuan plans on pursuing professional interests in gender discrimination in the labor market and the marriage market. Together with her faculty advisor and her team, she hopes to investigate some causality of gender discrimination in modern China.
Xiaoyan Yuan
