Meet the PLACE Leader
Dr. Yang Jiao, Program Chair
Assistant Professor of Economics
Yang Jiao is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University Texarkana. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University. Her research examines how family and social policies, including childcare subsidies, tax credits, and pension programs, shape household decisions and labor-market outcomes. She also studies how culture and social norms influence responses to public policies. Her research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed economics journals, including the Journal of Population Economics, the Journal of Comparative Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, the Small Business Review, and Public Choice. Her research on benefit cliffs, affordability, and labor supply in child care subsidy programs has received external support from the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Jiao is committed to connecting economic ideas with real-world social issues through interdisciplinary learning and community engagement.