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David Y. Yang Davide Cantoni, David Y Yang, Noam Yuchtman CEPR Book Series: Nation Building: Big Lessons from Successes and Failures (Feb 2023) [Link] The political economy of policy learning: evidence from China
Curriculum Vitae - David Y. Yang Martin Beraja, Andrew Kao, David Y Yang, Noam Yuchtman Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 138, No 3 (August) 2023 Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China
Protests - David Y. Yang David Y Yang Noam Yuchtman* August 21, 2023 In preparation for the Annual Review of Economics Abstract Citizens have long taken to the streets to demand change, expressing political views that may otherwise be suppressed Protests have produced change at local, national,
AI-tocracy - David Y. Yang David Y Yang Noam Yuchtman* October 25, 2022 Abstract Recent scholarship has suggested that artificial intelligence technology and autocratic regimes may be mutually reinforcing We test for such a mutually reinforcing rela-tionship in the context of facial recognition AI in China To do so, we gather com-
Historical Traumas and the Roots of Political Distrust . . . - David Y. Yang David Y Yang* October 2019 Abstract Political trust is the foundation of authoritarian regimes’ legitimacy, and it is often sustained by pro-paganda When does propaganda reach its limit, and what are the consequences when propaganda is falsified? We study the causal effect of the Great Chinese Famine (1958-1961) on survivors’ political
Persistence Despite Revolutions - David Y. Yang David Y Yang Yang You Weihong Zeng* August 4, 2022 Abstract Can efforts to eradicate inequality in wealth and education eliminate intergenerational persis-tence of socioeconomic status? The Chinese Communist Revolution and Cultural Revolution aimed to do exactly that Using newly digitized archival records, contemporary census and
Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from . . . - David Y. Yang Martin Beraja David Y Yang Noam Yuchtman* January 11, 2022 Abstract Developing AI technology requires data In many domains, government data far ex-ceeds in magnitude and scope data collected by the private sector, and AI firms often gain access to such data when providing services to the state We argue that such
The Impact of Media Censorship: 1984 or Brave New World? - David Y. Yang David Y Yang* December 2018 Abstract Media censorship is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes We conduct a field experiment in China to measure the effects of providing citizens with access to an uncensored Internet We track subjects’ me-dia consumption, beliefs regarding the media, economic beliefs, political attitudes, and behaviors over
Appropriate Entrepreneurship? - David Y. Yang David Y Yang* October 1, 2024 Abstract Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries, especially the US This paper investigates the international consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on the dramatic growth
Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI - David Y. Yang David Y Yang Noam Yuchtman* September 8, 2023 Abstract We document three facts about the global diffusion of surveillance AI tech-nology, and in particular, the role played by China First, China has a com-parative advantage in this technology It is substantially more likely to export