Zihan Zhang

Zihan Zhang is a graduate student in the International and Development Economics program at Yale University. Prior to Yale, she earned her bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from Waseda University. Her research interests lie in development and environmental economics. She is particularly interested in how rural households in low-income agrarian economies respond to climate risk. Her work examines both within-farm adjustments in production and input decisions and the reallocation of agricultural activity across farmers with differing levels of productivity. At Yale, she hopes to deepen her empirical training and engage further with current research on climate, agriculture, and development. Outside academia, she enjoys music, chess, and sports.