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Yuanyuan Deng is a CEPAR Senior Research Associate. She is an applied microeconomist with broad empirical interests focusing on Health Economics, Public Economics, and Labor Economics.Ìý

Her current researchÌýdevelops a life-cycle model of labor supply and consumption for urban males with heterogeneous skill types to evaluate the implications for labor supply and individual welfare of three reforms to the Basic Old-Age Insurance pension scheme in China. She is also working on projectsÌýrelated to population aging, the effect of gender-concordance, the intergenerational consequences of depression, mobility limitations of old Americans, and the relationship between measures of labor supply flexibility and portfolio-choice decisions.

Before rejoining UNSW in 2018, Yuanyuan held positions at Singapore Management University. Yuanyuan received her Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York-Stony Brook in 2016. During her Ph.D. study, her research focused on Medicare costs at both the individual and aggregate level, as well as the interactions between Medicare and Social Security. Her research has been supported by the Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC) and the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College.

Research interests:

• Main Research Areas: Health Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics, Chinese Economy
• Focus Areas: Labor Supply, Mental Health,ÌýHealth Expenditure, Health Insurance Market,ÌýAgeing in China

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