Siqi Wei

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ECONOMÍA

Siqi Wei holds a Ph.D. in Economics from CEMFI. She is currently an Assistant Professor at IE University. In terms of research, she is interested in applied econometrics topics with a focus on studying the risks that people face, such as income risk, health risk, and unemployment risk. The current research agenda aims to identify different sources of uncertainty that people encounter, understand their contribution to labor market outcomes (labor earnings, employment, and job dynamics) and welfare costs, and provide policy evaluation inputs. She leverages survey and administrative data, and relies on both reduced-form and structural methodological tools best suited to each particular question. At IEU, she teaches Econometrics, and Microeconometrics. During her Ph.D., she has been a teaching assistant for Econometrics, Introductory Statistics, and Panel data.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Economics, IE University, Spain, 2022 – Present

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Ph.D. in Economics, CEMFI, Spain, 2022

• Master in Economics, CEMFI, Spain, 2017

• Bachelor in Finance, UIBE, China, 2015

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Arellano, M., Bonhomme, S., De Vera, M., Hospido, L., Wei, S. (2022). “Income Risk Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Administrative Records”. Quantitative Economics 13.4 (2022): 1747 – 1801