NBER Profile: Nancy Qian.

Nancy Qian is a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER's Programs on Children and Development Economics, and an Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University, where she teaches development economics. She is a native of Shanghai, China and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. Before coming to Yale, Nancy taught at Brown University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University, in the Harvard Academy Scholars program. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and has been honored with the Kiel Institute's Global Excellence Award. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics and has consulted for development agencies such as The World Bank and the Global Development Network.

Nancy's research focuses on three core issues in development economics: the role of demography, the...