Li Yang

Li Yang is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. Her research integrates psychology and economics to study how management control systems shape employee behavior in social-mission and nonprofit organizations.

• PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2025)
• MPA, University of Texas at Austin (2019)
• BBA, Tsinghua University (2018)

Her work applies experimental methods to analyze telecommuting biases and emotional regulation in organizational contexts. Recent publications focus on:

• Telecommuting and gender bias in performance evaluations
• Anthropomorphic thinking in consumer behavior
• Behavioral economics in nonprofit management