Mengwei LIN 林孟蔚
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Mengwei LIN 林孟蔚
@mengweilin.bsky.social
PhD-ing at UB (@ubeconomics.bsky.social) & IEB (@fundacioieb.bsky.social)

📜: Economics of Education, Labor, Applied Micro |
✍: English-Chinese book translator |
He/him

🌐 https://lin-mengwei.github.io/#about
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🆕 Meet our 2025-2026 PhD #JobMarket Candidates!
🔺 @favredenoguera.bsky.social
🔺 Alejandra Paz Rivera Vicencio
🔺 Julia McGee
🔺 Alyvia McTague

Learn more about their profiles, including their research fields, and job market papers ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/zlktxlzgen
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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🗓️ On Monday, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor Albrecht Glitz (@upf.edu & Barcelona School of Economics) for BESTEPS Lecture 4, “Crafting the Job Market Paper.”
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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🚨 We’re delighted to announce the release of Volume 1 of The BESTEPS Guide: 7 Lessons Towards Effective Economics PhD Research — now available as an open-access resource!
July 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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📚 Introducing the new Applied Economics #ReadingGroup!

Organized by the IEB & @ub.edu’s Public Economics Section, this spring we explored:
📌 Baseline Regression Discontinuity
📌 Recent RD developments
📌 Difference‑in‑Discontinuities

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July 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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☕ Research Ideas Coffee Talk turned 1!

This season, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of this growing initiative! 🎉 Huge thanks to the organizers, @mengweilin.bsky.social and ‪@favredenoguera.bsky.social‬, who made this possible.

#EconPhD #EconSky #PhDCoffees #AcademicCommunity #PhDLife 🧵👇🏼
July 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Last Monday, I presented our paper "Penalizing Failures at University" (joint with Andreu Arenas Jal and Jenifer Ruiz Valenzuela) at the 15th International Workshop of Applied Economics of Education (#IWAEE).
June 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It was a great pleasure to present our work, Penalizing Failures at University, with Andreu Arenas and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela at the #ESPE2025 in Naples last week!

Grateful for all the insightful feedback and inspiring conversations — and it was fantastic to catch up with friends.
June 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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☕Since January, we've been enjoying vibrant discussions around the research ideas of our Economics PhD candidates and visitors, through our Research Ideas Coffee Talk series. 

Huge thanks to our series organizers, @mengweilin.bsky.social and @favredenoguera.bsky.social, for making this happen!👇🏼🧵
April 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🥂 What an amazing session! Huge thanks to Professor @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social for delivering such a practical and engaging talk — we all learned so much! It was a real pleasure to organize it.
📢 Last Thursday, @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social (UPF & BSE) kicked off #BESTEPS Lecture 1, “Starting a Feasible Project: Ideas, Literature, and Exploratory Analysis,” sharing key steps for identifying and developing research ideas, engaging with the literature, and conducting exploratory analysis.🧵👇🏼
March 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Many thanks to Professor Antonio Cabrales for the truly well-crafted and inspiring lecture! It was an honor to organize the event!
📣Last Monday, we welcomed Antonio Cabrales for the BESTEPS Opening Lecture, "Workflows of Economic Research."

With a full room and an engaged audience, he delivered an inspiring talk on the key stages of the research process blending principles, exercises, and examples of personal experiences🧵👇🏼
February 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
It's an honor! Thanks very much for this recognition and for liking the paper!
🥇Congratulations to @mengweilin.bsky.social on winning the Best Paper Award for his academic paper entitled “Penalizing Failures at University.”

Well done!
December 10, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Thanks everybody for the support! Looking forward to contributing to our #Economics PhD community! 🍺
🎉 Congratulations to @mengweilin.bsky.social, who was elected as the student representative for the PhD in #Economics programme in May 2024, and to Salvatore Viola, who will represent the PhD in Economics at the Committee of Master's and Doctoral Students of the @economiaempresaub.bsky.social.
November 25, 2024 at 7:21 PM