北京大学国家发展研究院助理研究员。2017年6月获得瑞典哥德堡大学经济学博士学位，2017年2月至2019年8月在世界银行发展研究部工作。

研究重点关注发展中国家资源与环境管理问题、资源环境政策评估、森林碳汇与气候变化等方面。主持国家自然科学基金面上项目，主持或参与多项由世界银行(World Bank)、联合国粮食与农业组织(FAO)、瑞典国际发展署(SIDA)、美国环保基金会(EDF)、加拿大国际发展研究中心(IDRC)资助的科研项目，已有多篇学术论文在环境发展和经济学领域权威学术期刊上发表, 包括Nature Climate Change, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, China Economic Review, Environmental and Resource Economics, Environment and Development Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Global Environmental Change, Forest Policy and Economics, China Economic Journal, The International Trade Journal, 《农业经济问题》等。

英文论文：

1. Chen, Xing, Jintao Xu, Yuanyuan Yi, and Andong Zhuge. 2025. Land reform, emerging grassroots democracy and political trust in China. World Development, 185: 106792. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106792.

2. Busch, Jonah, Jacob J. Bukoski, Susan C. Cook-Patton, Bronson Griscom, David Kaczan, Matthew D. Potts, Yuanyuan Yi, and Jeffrey Vincent. 2024. Cost-effectiveness of natural forest regeneration vs. plantations for climate mitigation. Nature Climate Change, 14, 996-1002. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02068-1.

3. Liu, Shilei, Jinlei Qi, Jintao Xu, Yuanyuan Yi, Peng Yin, and Maigeng Zhou. 2024. Forest Mitigates Short-Term Health Risk of Air Pollution: Evidence from China. Environmental and Resource Economics, 87:2163-2204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-024-00889-4

4. Williams, Brooke A., Sofía López-Cubillos, …, Yuanyuan Yi, …, Hawthorne Beyer. 2024. Bringing the forest back: Restoration priorities in Colombia. Diversity and Distributions, 30 (4), p. e13821. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13821

5. Yi, Yuanyuan and Xu, Jintao. 2023. The potential of China’s ecosystems in meeting the carbon neutrality goal: evidence from the forest sector, China Economic Journal, 16:2, 185-202. DOI: 10.1080/17538963.2023.2244277

6. Cheng, Audrey T., Katharine RE Sims, and Yuanyuan Yi. 2023. Economic development and conservation impacts of China's nature reserves. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 121: 102848. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2023.102848

7. Yi, Yuanyuan. 2023. Devolution of Tenure Rights in Forestland in China: Impact on Investment and Forest Growth. Forest Policy and Economics, 154, 103025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103025

8. Yi, Yuanyuan, Fredrik Carlsson, Gunnar Köhlin, and Jintao Xu. 2023. Allocative efficiency or misallocation of resources? The emergence of forestland rental markets and the forest devolution reform in China. European Review of Agricultural Economics 50(2), pp.395-420. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbac028

9. Shyamsundar, Priya, Francois Cohen, Timothy M. Boucher, Timm Kroeger, James T. Erbaugh, Gina Waterfield, Caitlin Clarke, …, Yuanyuan Yi, and Xiaoquan Zhang. 2022. Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics. Global Environmental Change 76: 102591. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102591

10. Fang, Sheng, Mike W. Peng, L. Colin Xu and Yuanyuan Yi. 2021. The Interplay of Policy and Institutions during COVID-19, The International Trade Journal, 35:6, 493-522. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08853908.2021.1977201

11. Yang, Xiaojun, Jun Li, Jintao Xu and Yuanyuan Yi. 2020. Household fuelwood consumption in western rural China: Ethnic minority families versus Han Chinese families. Environment and Development Economics, 25 (5) pp. 433-458. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X20000200

12. Jin, Lu, Yuanyuan Yi and Jintao Xu. 2020. Forest carbon sequestration and China’s potential: the rise of a nature-based solution for climate change mitigation, China Economic Journal, 13:2, 200-222, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17538963.2020.1754606

13. Yang, Xiaojun, Jintao Xu, Xiaojie Xu, Yuanyuan Yi and William F. Hyde. 2020. Collective forest tenure reform and household energy consumption: A case study in Yunnan Province, China. China Economic Review, 60 101134. Published online since December 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2017.12.001

14. Yi, Yuanyuan, Gunnar Köhlin and Jintao Xu. 2014. Property rights, tenure security and forest investment incentives: evidence from China's Collective Forest Tenure Reform. Environment and Development Economics, Vol 19, pp 48-73. Published online since May 2013. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X13000272

中文论文：

1. 易媛媛、尹俊、王进杰. 2024. 共同富裕视角下的乡村振兴新挑战. 企业改革与发展 2024年2月, pp.37-42.

2. 徐晋涛，易媛媛. “双碳”目标与基于自然的解决方案：森林碳汇的潜力和政策需求. 农业经济问题， 2022，513 (9): 11-23.

中英文书籍/章节

1. Xu, Jintao, Klaus Deininger, Yuanyuan Yi, Gunnar Köhlin, and William F. Hyde. “Property Rights, Secure Tenure, and Incentives for Forest Management”, in Xu, J., K. Deininger, and W. Hyde (eds), China’s Collective Forests: Global Lessons from Tenure Reform. Forthcoming. Washington: World Bank

2. Stein T. Holden, Yuanyuan Yi, Xuemei Jiang and Jintao Xu, 2013. “Tenure Security and Investment Effects of Forest Tenure Reform in China”, in Holden, S., Otsuka, K., and Deininger, K. (eds), Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa. pp. 256–282. Palgrave Macmillan. (August 2013).

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