Mengwei LIN

My name is Mengwei Lin*. I am a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), working with Andreu Arenas and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela since Spring 2023. From 2024 to 2026, I am also attending the PhD Course Program in Economics of Education at the University of Zurich.

My fields of interests include:

• Economics of Education (primary)
• Labor and Demographic Economics
• Public Economics
• Applied Microeconometrics: reduced-form & structural causal inference

Prior to Barcelona, I worked at the China Development Institute (CDI, Public Policy Research Center) and as a professional book translator, following my Master's in Economics (with Distinction) from The University of Edinburgh. Outside research, I also write public-facing econ articles and translate books.

* My first name "Mengwei" (孟蔚) has two syllables, meng (IPA: /məng/, audio here) and wei (as the word "way").