Wei Lin

​Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. 

I received my PhD from UC Berkeley in 2022.​ My research interests include learning and matching frictions in technology adoption, migration market, and firm-to-firm network. ​

 Curriculum Vitae (pdf) 

E-mail: linwei@cuhk.edu.cn

Working Papers


Firm-to-Firm Referrals, (Revise & resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics)

with Jing Cai and Adam Szeidl


Rural-Urban Migration and Market Integration

with Dennis Egger, Benjamin Faber, and Ming Li


Misspecified Learning in Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence From Fertilizer Use in China 

with Binkai Chen and Ao Wang


Labor Market Integration and Entrepreneurship 

with Hanming Fang and Ming Li  (draft available upon request)


Work in Progress


Effects of E-commerce on Suppliers and Clients (RCT intervention and data collection complete)

with Jing Cai and Adam Szeidl


The Gains from Online Integration

with Benjamin Faber, Victor Couture, Cecile Gaubert, Yizhen Gu, and Ming Li


Much ado about Property Rights: China’s Agricultural Wedges 

with Xiaoyang Li and Shijian Yang


Publications


The Causal Impact of Economics Education on Decision-making: Evidence from A Natural Experiment in China 

with Binkai Chen and Ao Wang. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2021), 188, pp.1124-1143. 

Policy Work/Pre-Doctoral Publications:


The Incentive for Firms' Innovation: Evidence from China's Rising Labor Cost, Management World (管理世界) (2013), (10), 95-105, 2013.


Does the Implementation of Reference Pricing Result in Reduced Utilization? Evidence from Inpatient and Outpatient Procedures (with Holly Elser, Ralph A. Catalano, and Timothy Brown). Medical Care Research and Review (2020), p.1077558720971117.


Residential electricity consumption after the reform of tiered pricing for household electricity in China (with Gang Du, Chuanwang Sun, and Dingzhong Zhang). Applied Energy (2015), 157, pp.276-283.