Contact Information 
Email: huangwei@pku.edu.cn
Research and Teaching Fields:
Public Economics, Labor Economics, Health Economics
Academic Employment:
Associate Professor with Tenure, Peking University 2022 -
Assistant Professor, Emory University, 2021- 2022
President's Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS), 2017- 2022
Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), 2016-2017
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 2016
M.A. in Economics with distinction, Peking University, 2011
B.S. in Physics and B.A. in Economics with distinction, Peking University, 2008
Academic Affiliations:
Co-Editor, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2018 - Present
Associate Editor, China Economic Review, 2021 - Present
Guest Editor, Journal of Asian Economics, 2021
Guest Editor, China Economic Review, 2021
Research Fellow, The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2014 – Present
Fellow, China Center for Economics of Human Development, 2018 - 2020
Board of Directors, The Chinese Economists Society (CES), 2016 – 2017
NBER Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Aging and Health Economics, 2013 – 2014
Inequality Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, 2013 – 2016
Wertheim Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard University, 2013 – 2015
Student Affiliate at Institute for Quantitative Social Science 2012 – 2016
Publications:
One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion and Welfare Loss, with Yi Zhou and Yinghao Pan, Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.
Early Childhood Exposure to Health Insurance and Adolescent Outcomes: Evidence from Rural China. with Hong Liu, Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 160: 102925.
Fertility Restrictions and Life Cycle Outcomes: Evidence from the One Child Policy in China. with Xiaoyan Lei and Ang Sun, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021; 103 (4): 694–710.
The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China’s New Rural Pension Scheme, with Chuanchuan Zhang, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021; 13 (2): 179-205.
How Do Households Adjust to Tariff Liberalization? Evidence from China’s WTO Accession, (with Mi Dai and Yifan Zhang) Journal of Development Economics, 2021; 150 (2021): 102628.
Persistent Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions: The Case of China’s Tariff Liberalization after WTO Accession, with Mi Dai and Yifan Zhang, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021; 178, 566-581.
A Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics, with Edward Glaeser, Yueran Ma, and Andrei Shleifer, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2017; 31(1): 93-116.
How does the One Child Policy Impact Social and Economic Outcomes? IZA World of Labor, 387.
One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-made Twins with Xiaoyan Lei and Yaohui Zhao, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016; 98(3), 467-476.
Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US with Richard B. Freeman, Journal of Labor Economics, 2015; 33.S1 Part 2: S289-S318.
Do ABCs Get More Citations than XYZs? Economic Inquiry, 2015; 53(1): 773–789.
When Does Education Matter? The Protective Effect of Education for Cohorts Graduating in Bad Times, with David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney, Social Science & Medicine, 2015; 127: 63–73.
Collaboration: Strength in Diversity, with Richard B. Freeman, Nature, 2014; 513 (7518): 305.
Effects of Education on Cognition at Older Ages: Evidence from China’s Great Famine, with Yi Zhou, Social Science & Medicine, 2013; 98: 54-62.
Health, Height, Height Shrinkage, and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China, with Xiaoyan Lei, Geert Ridder, John Strauss and Yaohui Zhao, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013; 5(2): 86-121.
中文论文发表
实物类转移支付的道德风险问题——以城职保个人账户为例 (与沓钰淇、雷晓燕), 世界经济，待刊。
退休制度、劳动供给与收入消费动态 （与任昶宇、周羿），经济研究，2023年第1期。(第一作者)
社会保险缴费率对企业全要素生产率和创新的影响（与汪佩洁、蒙克、黄海），经济研究，2022年第10期。（通讯作者）
社会资本在人力资本积累中的作用：以党员家长在班级层面的溢出效应为例（与殷戈、周羿），经济学报，2022, v.9;No.36(04) 243-270。（通讯作者）
扶贫先扶志：脱贫家庭内生动力对返贫风险的影响（与王明哲、 周迪），世界经济文汇， 2022, 01(05): 1-18。（通讯作者）
教育扶贫与人力资本积累：事实、机制与政策含义 (与宋弘、罗吉罡)，世界经济，2022, (45)：3-27。（通讯作者）
产学研促进了高校创新吗？——来自国家级开发区的经验证据 （与亢延锟、黄海、张柳钦），数量经济技术经济研究，2022，(10)：129-149。（通讯作者）
医疗保险的道德风险问题：来自中国经验的故事 (与沓钰淇)，中国经济学, 2022年第1期第1卷。（第一作者）
从双重差分法到事件研究法（与张子尧、刘安然），产业经济评论，2022年第02期:第17-36页。（第一作者）
环境政策效果的综合框架:来自16项试点政策的经验证据 (与王莉、亢延锟、薛飞)，财贸经济，2022年第(43)卷,第4期 第98-112页
人力资本的代际外溢性——来自“别人家的父母”的证据 (与殷戈、黄海)，经济学（季刊），2020年7月，第19卷第4期。（通讯作者）
贸易自由化如何影响中国区域劳动力市场？ (与戴觅、张轶凡)，管理世界，2019年第6期。（通讯作者）
风险感知、网络搜索与消费扭曲 (与胡龙海、任昶宇、周羿)，经济学（季刊），待刊。
社会保障项目之间的相互作用：养老保险对医疗保险的挤出（与张川川、魏旭），经济学（季刊），待刊。
脱贫共富对人力资本积累的同侪提升效应：基于随机分班的微观数据检验 （与王一平、王非），经济学（季刊），待刊。
疫苗接种、人力资本积累及其经济收益 (与何凡、王姣)，经济学（季刊），待刊。
Honors, Grants, and Fellowships:
2017-2021 NUS Start-up Fund for Project “Public Policies, Human Capital, and Social Welfare Outcomes”(SGD $200,000)
2016-2017 NBER Post-Doctoral Fellowship on Economics of an Aging Workforce
2015-2016 NBER Dissertation Fellowship on Economics of an Aging Workforce
2015-2016 Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award, Harvard University
2015 Extraordinary Potential Prize of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, Chinese Ministry of Education
2011, 2014 Warburg Research Fund, Harvard University
2014 Poster Session Winner, Population Association of America
2013-2014 NBER Pre-doc Fellowship in Aging and Health Economics; IQSS Graduate Research and Conference Travel Grant, Harvard University
2012 Cheung Yan Family Research Grant, Harvard University
Conference Presentations and Academic Activities:
2021 Peking University; Jinan University; Fudan University.
2020 Emory University; National University of Singapore; Peking University; Jinan University; CEC workshop.
2019 AEA conference; Peking University; Tsinghua University; Fudan University; National University of Singapore; Shanghai Jiaotong University; Sun Yat-Sen University; 4th Biennial Conference of China Development Studies; Dartmouth College; John Hopkins University; Georgetown University; University of International Business and Economics; Luohan Academy.
2018 NBER-SAIF conference; CCER Summer Institute; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; AREUEA 2018 International Conference; China Economic Society North America conference; Peking University; Tsinghua University; Fudan University; National University of Singapore; Nanyang Technology University; Xiamen University; Singapore Management University; Sun Yat-Sen University; Jinan University; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Frankfurt.
2017 Peking University; Tsinghua University; Renmin University of China; NBER Summer Institute; Pittsburgh University; University of Southern California; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; IIES Stockholm University; National University of Singapore; American Economic Association Annual.
2015-2016 American Economic Association Annual; Population Association of America Annual Meeting; The CES North America Conference; Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference; CES Conference; CIREQ Montreal Applied Economics Conference; Fourth SOLE/EALE World Conference; Econometric Society World Congress; 2nd Biennial Conference of China Development Studies.
2013-2014 American Economic Association Annual; Population Association of America Annual Meeting (Poster); The CES 2014 North America Conference; 11th Annual Migration Meeting (AM2); 2014 China Economics Summer Institute; China Meeting of Econometric Society; First Biennial Conference of China Development Studies; China Meeting of Econometric Society; Population Association of America Annual (Poster); American Economic Association Annual.
2012 and before NBER High-Skill Immigration Conference; Population Association of America Annual, (Coauthor present); North East Universities Development Consortium (Coauthor present); European Society for Population Economics Annual Meeting.
Referee Activities:
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, China Economic Review, Economics and Education Review, Economics and Human Biology, Economics of Transition, Economic Inquiry, Health Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Real Estate Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Research Policy, Science
