Weiliang Tan

I am an NBER Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Startup Cartography Project (Jorge Guzman, Scott Stern, Catherine Fazio). In July 2026, I will join Claremont McKenna College as an Assistant Professor of Economics.

I received my PhD in Applied Economics from Cornell University and was a visiting student at the Department of Economics at Yale University from 2023-2025 hosted by Prof. Samuel Kortum.

My primary fields are International and Spatial Economics; Urban Economics; and Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

I leverage large-scale microdata and quantitative spatial models to study the geography of innovation and entrepreneurship.