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
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.