Dr. Guanyi Yang is an Assistant Professor at the Economics and Business department at Colorado College. He is a macroeconomist with research interests in inequality and the labor market. His current research focuses on two areas: (i) how labor market frictions amplify welfare loss during a recession and delay economic recovery. The friction in his work comes from job nature, such as differences between formal and informal jobs, temporary and regular contracts, and racial discrimination in job finding and separation. (ii) how factors change a person’s risk tolerance and affordability to various education and career choices, widening income and wealth inequalities over time. The factors he studies include childhood family structure and parental care, early adulthood family wealth, and marriage and fertility. Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Ohio State University in 2018 and B.A. in Mathematics and Economics (with honor) from Ohio Wesleyan University in 2013. Before joining CC, he was an assistant professor of economics on the tenure track at St. Lawrence University. Dr. Yang grew up in a small mining town in central China and is a first-generation immigrant to the U.S. He is also a first-generation college graduate.