Wei Huang

Research Fellow

National University of Singapore

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Wei Huang is a Postdoc at NBER with interests in labor economics, health economics and public economics. His previous work includes, for example, examining the relationship between height shrinkage and socio-economics status among older people, effects of education on older people's cognition, and the ethnic co-authorship in scientific journal papers within the US. He is also working on issues related to immigration and science policy. He got his PhD in Economics at Harvard University in 2016. He received master degree in Economics in 2011 and a bachelor's degree in Physics in 2008 at Peking University.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2014.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 11428
How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession
Mi Dai, Wei Huang, Yifan Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10425
The Power of Social Pensions
Wei Huang, Chuanchuan Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9532
One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss
Wei Huang, Yi Zhou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9481
Overconfidence and Health Insurance Participation among the Elderly
Wei Huang, Mi Luo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9301
The Great Expectations: Impact of One-Child Policy on Education of Girls
Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei, Ang Sun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9225
Understanding the Effects of Education on Health: Evidence from China
Wei Huang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8432
Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US
Richard B. Freeman, Wei Huang
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3), S1 / Part 2, S289-S318.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8394
One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-Made Twins
Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei, Yaohui Zhao
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 93 (3), 467 -476
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6489
Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China
Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei, Geert Ridder, John Strauss, Yaohui Zhao
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(2), 86-121.
IZA World of Labor Article
How does the one child policy impact social and economic outcomes?
Wei Huang
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