Education
- Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
- B.S., National University of Singapore
Biography
Wei Qian is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Haverford College. Wei is an empirical macroeconomist whose research interests include development economics and labor economics. Her current work analyzes the exertion of firms’ monopsony power against workers in labor markets in developing countries. In particular, she and her coauthors quantified the impact of firms’ monopsony power on wages using large scale establishment-level data and examined how firms’ monopsony power changes with economic shocks such as trade liberalization and infrastructure development. Aside from analyzing monopsony power, Wei is also interested in using randomized information experiments to study the formation of individual expectations about the aggregate economy. Before coming to Haverford, Wei worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. This year, Wei will teach Labor Economics J-Sem and Intermediate Macroeconomics.