Wei Lin

Ph.D. in Economics, Michigan State University

B.A. in Economics, Fudan University

Wei Lin is an Assistant Professor in the College of Business and Public Management at Wenzhou-Kean University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University and her B.A. in Economics from Fudan University. After graduation, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MIT Center for Real Estate for two years. She then worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR), Jinan University, for seven years before joining Wenzhou-Kean University.

Her primary research interests are in applied econometrics, with a focus on addressing endogeneity in limited dependent variable models to identify causal marginal effects using control function approaches. She also works in applied microeconomics—including labor, urban, environmental, and industrial organization—applying econometric methods to real-world policy questions. One of her current empirical projects studies how family leave policies affect the representation of women in executive positions in China.

"Dietary Patterns and the Effect of Long-Term PM2.5 Exposure on Metabolic Syndrome among Chinese Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study" (with H. Mao, W. Wang, L. Liu, W. Huang, Y. Min, C. Wang, W. Lao, J. Pan, and K. Ju) Environmental Research Letters, 19, 034003. 2024.

"Screening through Investment: Evidence from the Chinese Automobile Industry" (with F. Mathewson, and J. Xiao) Review of Industrial Organization 64, 471-513, 2024.

Unfolding Beijing in a Hedonic Way (with Z. Shi, Y. Wang and T.H. Yan) Computational Economics, 2021.

“Testing and Correcting for Endogeneity in Nonlinear Unobserved Effects Models” (with J.M. Wooldridge) Panel Data Econometrics Volume1: Theory, Academic Press, 2019. 21-43.

"On Different Approaches to Obtaining Partial Effects in Binary Response Models with Endogenous Regressors" (with J.M. Wooldridge) Economics Letters 134, 58-61, September 2015.