Contact Information:

Tel：86-10-62769295

E-mail：yyyi@nsd.pku.edu.cn

Academic Employment:

Research assistant professor, National School of Development, Peking University 2019 -

Consultant, Development Research Group, World Bank, 2017 - 2019

Education:

Ph.D. in Environmental Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2017

MSc in Environmental Management and Economics with Best Thesis Award, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011.

Research and Teaching Fields:

Environmental and resource economics

•     Forest resources and climate change mitigation

•     Institutional reform & human welfare and the environment

•     State-owned forest management

•     Community forest management

•     Protected areas

Development economics

Forest economics

TEACHING:

Development Economics, Fall semester, 2019. Under-graduate level, National School of Development of Peking University.

PhD Specialization Course on Land Economics and Governance , November 6 – December 20, 2018. Organized by University of Cape Town in South Africa and the World Bank Group in the United States.

Lab tutorial course , the pre-conference course - Introduction to Google Earth Engine and Using Remote Sensing Data in Research, WCERE 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 23-25, 2018 (Course coordinator: Jeremy Proville, Environmental Defense Fund)

Training course on Rural Household Living Standard Survey (Undergraduate and graduate students), Sichuan University, China, 2015

Publications ：

English peer-reviewed journals:

1. Chen Xing, Jintao Xu, Yuanyuan Yi, and Andong Zhuge. 2025. Land reform, emerging grassroots democracy and political trust in China. World Development, 185: 106792. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106792.

2. Busch, Jonah, Jacob J. Bukoski1, Susan C. Cook-Patton, Bronson Griscom, David Kaczan, Matthew D. Potts, Yuanyuan Yi, and Jeffrey Vincent. 2024. Cost-effectiveness of natural forest regeneration vs. plantations for climate mitigation. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02068-1.

5. Yi, Yuanyuan and Xu, Jintao. 2023. The potential of China’s ecosystems in meeting the carbon neutrality goal: evidence from the forest sector, China Economic Journal , DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17538963.2023.2244277

6. Cheng, Audrey T., Katharine RE Sims, and Yuanyuan Yi. 2023. Economic development and conservation impacts of China's nature reserves. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 121: 102848. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2023.102848

7. Yi, Yuanyuan. 2023. Devolution of Tenure Rights in Forestland in China: Impact on Investment and Forest Growth. Forest Policy and Economics , 154, 103025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103025

8. Yi, Yuanyuan, Fredrik Carlsson, Gunnar Köhlin, and Jintao Xu. 2023. Allocative efficiency or misallocation of resources? The emergence of forestland rental markets and the forest devolution reform in China. European Review of Agricultural Economics 50(2), pp.395-420. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac028

9. Shyamsundar, Priya, Francois Cohen, Timothy M. Boucher, Timm Kroeger, James T. Erbaugh, Gina Waterfield, Caitlin Clarke, …, Yuanyuan Yi, and Xiaoquan Zhang. Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics. Global Environmental Change 76 (2022): 102591. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102591

10. Fang, Sheng, Mike W. Peng, L. Colin Xu and Yuanyuan Yi. 2021. The Interplay of Policy and Institutions during COVID-19, The International Trade Journal , 35:6, 493-522. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08853908.2021.1977201

11. Yang, Xiaojun, Jun Li, Jintao Xu and Yuanyuan Yi. 2020. Household fuelwood consumption in western rural China: Ethnic minority families versus Han Chinese families. Environment and Development Economics , 25 (5) pp. 433-458. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X20000200

12. Jin, Lu, Yuanyuan Yi and Jintao Xu. 2020. Forest carbon sequestration and China’s potential: the rise of a nature-based solution for climate change mitigation, China Economic Journal , 13:2, 200-222, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17538963.2020.1754606

13. Yang, Xiaojun, Jintao Xu, Xiaojie Xu, Yuanyuan Yi and William F. Hyde. 2020. Collective forest tenure reform and household energy consumption: A case study in Yunnan Province, China. China Economic Review , 60 101134. Published online since December 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2017.12.001

14. Yi, Yuanyuan, Gunnar Köhlin and Jintao Xu. 2014. Property rights, tenure security and forest investment incentives: evidence from China's Collective Forest Tenure Reform. Environment and Development Economics , Vol 19, pp 48-73. Published online since May 2013. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X13000272

Chinese peer-reviewed journals:

1. Xu, Jintao and Yuanyuan Yi. 2022. Nature-based Solutions in Meeting China’s Dual-carbon Goal: The Potential of Forest and Policy Needs. Issues in Agricultural Economy (In Chinese) Vol. 9, pp 11-23.

2. Yi, Yuanyuan, Jun Yin, and Jinjie Wang. 2024. New Challenges to China’s Rural Revitalization: The Perspective of Common Prosperity. Enterprises Reform and Development (In Chinese): Vol. 2, pp 37-42.

Book chapters:

1. Xu, Jintao, Klaus Deininger, Yuanyuan Yi, Gunnar Köhlin, and William F. Hyde. “Property Rights, Secure Tenure, and Incentives for Forest Management”, in Xu, J., K. Deininger, and W. Hyde (eds), China’s Collective Forests: Global Lessons from Tenure Reform . Forthcoming. Washington: World Bank

2. Stein T. Holden, Yuanyuan Yi, Xuemei Jiang and Jintao Xu, 2013. “Tenure Security and Investment Effects of Forest Tenure Reform in China”, in Holden, S., Otsuka, K., and Deininger, K. (eds), Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa . pp. 256–282. Palgrave Macmillan. (August 2013).

Referee:

Editor assistant to World Development
Nature: Climate Change
AMBIO
Environment and Development Economics
European Review of Agricultural Economics
Resource and Energy Economics
Forest Policy and Economics
Environmental Development
China Economic Review
China Economic Quarterly
China Agricultural Economic Review
Journal of African Economics
Journal of Forest Economics
Land Use Policy
Climate Policy
Energy Policy
Regional Environmental Change
International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
Sustainability