Dr. Guanyi Yang is an Assistant Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University. His research resides primarily within macroeconomics, with an emphasis on topics related to labor economics. One area of his work focuses on studying factors leading to life-cycle income inequality. The factors he studies include childhood household conditions, family wealth and college choice, and risk tolerance and occupation choices. The other area of his work studies how labor market frictions contribute to business cycle dynamics and welfare loss. The frictions in his work come from job nature, such as differences between formal and informal jobs, temporary and regular contracts, and racial discrimination in the labor market search-and-matching process. Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Ohio State University in 2018 and B.A. in Mathematics and Economics (with honors) from Ohio Wesleyan University in 2013. He grew up in a small town in central China and is a first-generation immigrant to the U.S. He is also a first-generation college graduate.