Youpei Yan, PhD

Education

• Ph.D.  Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, 2019
• M.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, 2017
• B.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics, Mathematics, University of Maryland, 2013

Research Interests

Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Natural Capital, Public Economics, Infectious Disease. 

Selected Publications

Buchkowski, Robert W., Shawn J. Leroux, Youpei Yan, Alicia Entem, Isabelle Schmelzer, and Eli P. Fenichel. The effects of moose browsing on balsam fir and forest recovery vary with bioclimatic and human use across the island of Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Forest Research (2023). 

Yan, Youpei, Bayham, Jude., Richter, A., Eli P. Fenichel. Risk compensation and face mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sci Rep 11, 3174 (2021). 

Yan, Youpei, Amyn A. Malik, Jude Bayham, Eli P. Fenichel, Chandra Couzens, Saad B. Omer (2020). Measuring voluntary social distancing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021) 118 (16) e2008814118; 

Yan, Youpei, Unintended Land Use Effects of Afforestation in China’s Grain for Green Program, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2019)

Ongoing Research (please contact me if you have similar ideas or suggestions)

• The Newfoundland Moose-forest Ecosystem as a Portfolio of Natural Capital;
• Natural Capital Accounting for Land in China;
• Renewable-energy Subsidy Spillovers: Land Pattern Change in Poland;
• Efficiency in the choice of Best Management Practices: Livestock Pollution and its Abatement Efforts

Teaching Experience as an Instructor

• Microeconomics (Ec101B&C, Suffolk University)
• COVID-19 Behavioral Impact and Applied Econometrics in Python (S&DS177, Yale University)
• Applied Econometrics (with R) in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics (AREC422, University of Maryland)