Wei Huang

Research Fellow

National University of Singapore

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Research Interests

Wei Huang is a Postdoc at NBER with interests in labor economics, health economics and public economics. His previous work includes, for example, examining the relationship between height shrinkage and socio-economics status among older people, effects of education on older people's cognition, and the ethnic co-authorship in scientific journal papers within the US. He is also working on issues related to immigration and science policy. He got his PhD in Economics at Harvard University in 2016. He received master degree in Economics in 2011 and a bachelor's degree in Physics in 2008 at Peking University.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2014.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14184
Teacher Characteristics and Student Performance: Evidence from Random Teacher-Student Assignments in China
Wei Huang, Teng Li, Yinghao Pan, Jinyang Ren
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 747-781
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14125
Non-linear Incentives, Worker Productivity, and Firm Profits: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Richard B. Freeman, Wei Huang, Teng Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11428
How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession
Mi Dai, Wei Huang, Yifan Zhang
published as 'How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102628
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10425
The Power of Social Pensions
Wei Huang, Chuanchuan Zhang
published as 'The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (2), 179 - 205
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9532
One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss
Wei Huang, Yi Zhou
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9481
Overconfidence and Health Insurance Participation among the Elderly
Wei Huang, Mi Luo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9301
The Great Expectations: Impact of One-Child Policy on Education of Girls
Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei, Ang Sun
published as 'Fertility Restrictions and Life Cycle Outcomes: Evidence from the One-Child Policy in China' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (4), 695 - 710
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9225
Understanding the Effects of Education on Health: Evidence from China
Wei Huang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8432
Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US
Richard B. Freeman, Wei Huang
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3), S1 / Part 2, S289-S318.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8394
One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-Made Twins
Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei, Yaohui Zhao
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 93 (3), 467 -476
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