About Me

Welcome to my website! I’m Huilin Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Purdue University. I am on the 2024-2025 job market. My research focuses on Urban Economics, Spatial Economics, International Trade and Applied Microeconomics. My current projects use structural models and reduced-form methods to explore various topics, including (1) externalities and optimal policies, (2) globalization and CEO compensation, and (3) student-university matching and human capital production.

Job Market Paper

Productivity Externality of Working from Home: Welfare and Policy Implications

Works in Progress

  1. “How Globalization Changes the Level and Structure of Executive Compensation” with Jaerim Choi, David Hummels, and Jakob R. Munch
  2. “The Production of Human Capital in A System of Universities” with David Hummels