Wei You is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California San Diego in 2017. Between 2017 and 2020, he worked as a Research Fellow at the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. His research specialization includes Urban and Regional Economics, Development Economics, and Economic History.

Contact Information:

Email: weiyou@nsd.pku.edu.cn
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/youweilucky/

Published and Accepted Papers:

1. The Economics of Speed: The Electrification of the Streetcar System and the Decline of Mom-and-Pop Stores in Boston, 1885-1905, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13(4), pp. 285-324
2. The Local Labor Market Effect of Relaxing Internal Migration Restrictions: Evidence from China, (joint with Lei An, Yu Qin, Jing Wu),  Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42(1), pp. 161-200.
3. Should Governments Promote or Restrain Urbanization? (joint with Wenbin Wu), Journal of International Economics, 2025, 104084.
4. The Agricultural and Economic Impacts of Massive Water Diversion, (joint with Guangbo Huang, Chong Liu, Tianyang Xi, and Huayu Xu), Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 103517.
5. Investor Origin and Deforestation: Evidence from Global Mining Sites, (joint with Ran Goldblatt and Victoria Wenxin Xie), accepted by Review of Economics and Statistics.
6. Keeping an Eye on the Villain: Assessing the Impact of Surveillance Cameras on Crime,  (joint with Jinmei Feng, Hong Ma, and Mingzhi Xu), accepted by Journal of Development Economics.
7. Labor Market and Residential Adjustment on Multiple Margins: The Role of Migration and Parental Coresidence, (joint with Sewin Chan and Katherine O'Regan), Journal of Housing Economics, 2021, 53, 101760
8. Detecting the Boundaries of Urban Areas in India: A Dataset for Pixel-Based Image Classification in Google Earth Engine, (joint with Ran Goldblatt, Gordon Hanson, and Amit Khandelwal), Remote Sensing, 2016, 8(8), 634
9. 社会性学习, 从众心理和股市参与决策 (刘玉珍, 孟涓涓, 尤炜, 赵龙凯), 金融研究, 2013, 7:  153-165.
10. 社会性交流、信息整合与新投资者的股市参与决策  (刘玉珍, 孟涓涓, 尤炜, 赵龙凯), 经济管理学刊, 2022, 1(1): 113-136.
11. “东北现象”及其再解释——产业结构转型的视角  (林毅夫, 尤炜, 张皓辰),中国经济学, 2022, 1(2): 1-45.
12. 产业补贴政策的追随行为：随波逐流还是见贤思齐？(冯金梅, 邵雨卉, 王勇, 尤炜), 经济评论, 2024, 2 (242): 123-139