BAI Yu, Associate Professor at School of Economics, Minzu University of China, the deputy director of the China Institute for Vitalizing Border Areas and Enriching the People (VBEP). He received a Ph.D. at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016. He teaches Development Economics, Experimental Economics in Impact Evaluation, Econometrics, and academic writing. His recent research focuses on human capital and public services in rural China, and he has published more than 30 papers in a range of journals including the Journal of Development Economics, World Development, Demography, China Economic Review, Journal of Development Studies, IJERPH, and other journals.