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I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Economics at the University of Southampton, where I also serve as Line Manager for the joint program with the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Stony Brook University.

I work at the intersection of public finance, family economics, and housing markets, using quantitative macroeconomic models to analyse taxation, welfare design, inequality, and household behaviour. My research combines structural modelling with rich heterogeneity to evaluate how different groups respond to policy reforms and to generate distributionally informed evidence for tax, welfare, and housing policy.

My work has been published in leading international journals and supported by competitive research funding as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator. Alongside peer-reviewed research, I actively translate quantitative analysis into policy-oriented outputs and public engagement, including macroeconomic forecasting and empirical studies of household consumption during COVID-19. 

Contact: qian.li@soton.ac.uk

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