Yanyan Liu

Yanyan Liu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions and a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Her research focuses on program impact evaluation, poverty prediction, microfinance, microinsurance, and economic transformation. Her work has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Nature Sustainability, and Nature Human Behaviour. Prior to joining IFPRI in 2009, Yanyan worked at RTI International and in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. She holds a BA in International Economics from Nankai University, an MS in Statistics, and a joint PhD in Economics and Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University.