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Wesley Yin, Ph.D.
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Wesley Yin is an assistant professor in the Harris School.
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Wesley Yin, an assistant professor in the Harris School, received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University before coming to the University of Chicago. His research focuses on a broad range of economic topics in the areas of health, health care, microfinance, and insurance markets. He has examined the diffusion of efficient medical practices; the effect of demographic and technological change on the stability of health insurance markets; the use of heuristics to deduce risk in asymmetrically informed insurance and credit markets; and how insights from behavioral economics can help to mobilize savings. In ongoing work, Yin is studying the impact of medical technology on health behaviors and the role of information and competitive forces on the delivery of health care and other services.
His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Institutes of Health, the Social Science Research Council, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has been published in outlets such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Development Economics.
Yin teaches statistics in the advanced econometrics sequence for policy students and a course on the economics of innovation. Yin is also a faculty affiliate of the Population Research Center and is on leave as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy (Harvard University) until 2008.
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