PhD Candidate
Shengqi Ni is a PhD candidate in Economics at Boston University. His research focuses on how information is manipulated in authoritarian countries, and how patronage networks affect politicians’ career incentives and resource allocation in developing countries. He holds an MA in Economics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a BA from the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. Prior to joining BU, Shengqi worked at the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University.
Fields: Development Economics, Organizational Economics, Political Economy
Advisors: Dilip Mookherjee, Raymond Fisman, Benjamin Marx