Wenchao Jin

Address: The Institute for Fiscal Studies

7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Telephone: +44 (0) 207 291 4800

E-mail: wenchao_j@ifs.org.uk

Nationality: Chinese

Education

2011-2013 MSc Econonics (Distinction), University College London

2007-2010 BA (Hons) Economics (1st class), University of Cambridge

Employment

September 2010 to date Research Economist, The Institute for Fiscal Studies

Scholarships and awards

2013 Best MSc dissertation, UCL

2013 Best overall performance in MSc Economics, UCL

2007-2010 Jardine scholarship (1 award per cohort from Mainland China)

2005 First prize in China’s High School Mathematics Competition (2nd

place in

Shanghai)

Selected Publications

What can wages and employment tell us about the UK's productivity puzzle?, 2014 The

Economic Journal, (with Richard Blundell and Claire Crawford)

Productivity, Investment and Profits during the Great Recession: Evidence from UK Firms

and Workers, Fiscal Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2013, Vol.34, no.2, pp.153-177, Wiley

Blackwell, Journal Articles, (with Claire Crawford and Helen Simpson)

The productivity puzzles, book chapters in IFS Green Budget 2013, (with Helen Miller and

Richard Disney)

The distributional impact of the 2012-13 higher education funding reforms in

England, Fiscal Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, June 2012, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 211-235, (with

Haroon Chowdry, Lorraine Dearden, and Alissa Goodman)

The Impact of the Minimum Wage Regime on the Education and Labour Market Choices of

Young People, report to Low Pay Commission 2012, (with Claire Crawford, Ellen Greaves,

Joanna Swaffield and Anna Vignoles)

Universal Credit: a preliminary analysis, IFS Briefing Notes, BN116, January 2011, (with

Mike Brewer and James Browne)

Recent presentations

the 10th

ECB-CEPR labour market workshop (Frankfurt, Nov. 2014)

the 2014 EEA-ESEM conference (Toulouse, Aug. 2014)

the Higher Education Commission (the UK Parliament, London, Sept. 2014)