She worked as a tenure-track assistant professor at Kansas State University from August 2003 to July 2005. She joined School of Economics and Management in Tsinghua University in August 2005.

She taught principle of management, compensation management, and human resource economics.

Her research interests include compensation and incentives, job market and employment, talent managementm CEO and TMT, and human resources in new economy. She published both internationally and domestically, such as in Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management Journal, Industrial Relations, Journal of Labor Research, China Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, and in Management World (Chinese).

Peer-reviewed Papers (In English) (*corresponding)

1. Zhou, J., Li, N., Xu, S., & Chi, W. (2025). High performers in the shadow: The adverse effect of star employees on their peers. Journal of Applied Psychology, 110(6), 776–797.

2. Kan, Z., Zhao, S., Chi, W., & Zhou, J. (2024). AI types and organizational implications in various task contexts: a quantitative review from China. Asia Pacific Business Review, 1–28.

3. Min, X., Chi, W., Hu, X., & Ye, Q. (2024). Set a Goal for Yourself? A Model and Field Experiment with Gig Workers. Production and Operations Management, 33(1), 205-224.

4. Zhou, J., Li, N., & Chi, Wei*. (2022). Getting ahead or getting along? How motivational orientations forge newcomers' cohort network structures, task assistance, and turnover. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(3): 410-429. JOB Best Paper Award, 2022.

5. Han, Y., Chi, Wei, & Zhou, J. (2022). Prosocial imprint: CEO childhood famine experience and corporate philanthropic donation. Journal of Business Research, 139, 1604-1618.  

6. Bai, C. E., Chi, Wei*, Liu, T*. X., Tang, C., & Xu, J. (2021). Boosting pension enrollment and household consumption by example: A field experiment on information provision. Journal of Development Economics, 150, 102622.

7. Zhou, J., Chi, Wei, & Zhu, W. (2021). No good deed is too small: field experimental studies of different self-identities and workplace saving behavior. Chinese Management Studies, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print, doi: 10.1108/CMS-12-2020-0529.

8. Chi, Wei, Liu, Tracy X., Qian, X., Ye, Q. 2019. An experimental study of incentive contracts for short and long-term employees. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 159: 366-383.

9. Chi, Wei, Liao, H., Wang, L., Zhao, R., Ye, Q. (2019). Incentives to move up: Effects of pay gaps between levels on employee performance. Human Resource Management Journal, 29: 238-253.

10. Chi, Wei, Kleiner, Morris, & Qian, Xiaoye. (2017). Do Occupational Regulations Increase Earnings? Evidence from China. Industrial Relations, 56: 351-381.  

11. Hu, S., Wan, Z., Ye, Q., & Chi, Wei. (2017). Supplier behavior in capacity investment competition: An experimental study. Production and Operations Management, 26: 273-291.

12. Chi, Wei*, Li, Wen-Dong, Wang, Nan, & Song, Zhaoli*. (2016). Can genes play a role in explaining frequent job changes? An examination of gene-environment interaction from human capital theory. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101: 1030-1044.

13. Chi, Wei, & Qian, Xiaoye. 2016. Human capital investment in children: an empirical study of household child education expenditure in China, 2007 and 2011. China Economic Review, 37:52-65. China Economic Review Best Paper Award, 2016.

14. Budd, John, Chi, Wei, Wang, Yijiang, & Xie, Qianyun. 2014. What do unions in China do? Provincial-evidence on wages, employment, productivity, and economic output. Journal of Labor Research, 35(2): 185-204.

15. Chi, Wei, & Li, Bo. 2014. Trends in China's gender employment and pay gaps: estimating gender pay gaps with employment selection. Journal of Comparative Economics, 42(3): 708-725.  

16. Bai, Chong-en, Chi, Wei, & Qian, Xiaoye. 2014. Do college entrance examination scores predict undergraduate GPAs? A tale of two universities. China Economic Review, 30: 632-647.

17. Chi, Wei, & Qian, Xiaoye. 2013. Regional disparity of labor’s share in China: evidence and explanation. China Economic Review, 27: 277-293.

18. Chi, Wei. 2012. Capital income and income inequality: Evidence from Urban China. Journal of Comparative Economics, 40(2):228-239.

19. Chi, Wei, Li, Bo, & Yu, Qiumei. 2011. Decomposition of the increase in earnings inequality in urban China: a distributional approach. China Economic Review, 22: 299-312.

20. Chi, Wei, Freeman, Richard, & Kleiner, Morris. 2011. Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs. LABOUR, 25(1):45-62.

21. Chi, Wei, & Qian, Xiaoye. 2010. The role of education in regional innovation activities: spatial evidence from China. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy,15(4):396-419.

22. Chi, Wei, & Zhang, Haiyan. 2010. Are stronger executive incentives associated with cross-listing? Evidence from China. China Economic Review, 21:150-160.

23. Chi, Wei, & Wang, Yijiang. 2009. Ownership, performance, and executive turnover. Journal of Asian Economics, 20:465-278.

24. Chi, Wei, & Li, Bo. 2008. Glass ceiling or sticky Floor? Examining the gender earnings differential across the earnings distribution in urban China, 1987-2004. Journal of Comparative Economics, 3:243-263.

25. McCall, Brian P., & Chi, Wei. 2008. Unemployment insurance, unemployment durations, and re- employment wages. Economics Letters, 99(1): 115-118.

26.  Chi, Wei. 2008. The role of human capital in China’s economic development: review and new evidence. China Economic Review, 19:421-436.

Monograph

Human Capital in the Digital Era, by Chi, Wei, Tsinghua University Press, 2022

Empirical Study of China’s Family Educational Expenditure, by Chi, Wei, Wu, Binzhen, Qian, Xiaoye, and Liang, Qi. Tsinghua University Press, 2012.

She is a member of Academy of Management and Chinese Economist Society.