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. I am also on the PhD Course Program in Economics of Education at the University of Zurich from 2024 to 2026.

Fields of interests:

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

My background: I obtained a Master's in Economics (with Distinction) from The University of Edinburgh. Prior to Barcelona, I worked in policy consultancy at the China Development Institute (CDI, Public Policy Center) and as a book translator. Outside research, I also write public-facing econ articles.

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