After the Gold Rush: Canada’s International Student Reckoning
This op-ed was originally published by Times Higher Education on March 11, 2026. For more than a decade, international students…
Boxi Yang
Senior Research Associate, Education & Skills
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Boxi Yang is a Senior Research Associate with the Education & Skills team at Signal49 Research. She leads research projects on analyzing the post-secondary education outcomes in Canada and forecasting the skills that are needed for the future of work.
Boxi is a Ph.D. candidate at Simon Fraser University, with specializations in applied econometrics, labour and development economics. Prior to that, she was a researcher at UNDP China and the Development Research Institute at NYU, where she played a key role in projects on poverty alleviation and public economics.
Academic Qualifications
- Ph.D. candidate in Economics, Simon Fraser University
- M.A. in Economics, New York University
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