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. His research has been published in leading journals in economics, such as AEJ-AE, REStats, JIE, JDE,JLE.