Welcome! I am a health economist using methods from applied microeconomics and development economics, working on topics related to healthcare decision-making. I am a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate at Kellogg School of Management.
I am on the 2025-26 job market.
Two streams of my work related to imperfect information and mismatched belief in healthcare setting, motivated by two central questions: (1) What drives patients to choose alternative medicine over modern treatments, even when effective options are available and affordable? (2) How do market structure and consumer trust affect quality provision in pharmaceutical markets? Methodologically, I use randomized controlled trials and natural experiments, merging the strength of causal inference and theory-driven methods.
Email: zixin.wei@kellogg.northwestern.edu