On June 10, 2015, HUANG Wei, doctoral candidate of Harvard University Economic Department, was invited to visit the School and made an academic report entitled "China’s Great Leap Forward in Science and Engineering". The reported was hosted by associate professor Zhang Lingxiang of the Department of Applied Economics. Teachers and students fom the Department of Applied Economics and researchers from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences participated in the report.
Speaker Profile：
Wei Huang is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Harvard University. He is also an Inequality & Social Policy Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, Wertheim Fellow in Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, NBER Pre-doctoral fellow at Health Economics and Aging, IZA research Fellow, IQSS student affiliate and CCHER Visiting Fellow. His interested fields include Labor Economics, Health Economics and Applied Econometrics. His previous papers, including coauthored ones, have been published on Nature, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Social Science & Medicine, Economic Inquiry. He also provides referee service to Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Health Economics，Economics and Human Biology, Health Economics and Research Policy.