My research focuses on the measurement and development of human capabilities, particularly children’s cognitive and noncognitive skills. My work compares and constructs measures of these skills and examines their relationships with children’s academic and behavioral outcomes. Using longitudinal data from China, I also study how family circumstances, parenting, and educational environments shape children’s skill. These studies draw extensively on the Longitudinal Study of Children’s Development in Mianzhu and seek to improve the measurement and understanding of human capabilities and inform policies that support children’s development and expand their opportunities.
Email: hanyujie2013@outlook.com
Selected Publications
Feng, Shuaizhang, Yujie Han, James J. Heckman, and Tim Kautz. 2022. “Comparing the reliability and predictive power of child, teacher, and guardian reports of noncognitive skills.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(6), e2113992119.
Feng, Shuaizhang, Yu Gan, Yujie Han, and Tim Kautz. 2024. “Shorter can be better: Balancing length and predictive power when measuring noncognitive skills to predict academic outcomes.” Economics Letters, 236, 111598.
Wu, Binglan, Shuaizhang Feng, Yijing Zhang, and Yujie Han. 2025. “Do children’s time preferences predict future school outcomes?” China Economic Review, 93, 102490.
Chen, Yuanyuan, Shuaizhang Feng, and Yujie Han. 2020. “The effect of primary school type on the high school opportunities of migrant children in China.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 48(2), 325–338.