About

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale. My research fields are industrial organization and urban economics.

I study topics including congestion pricing, affordable housing, and auction design. I’m particularly interested in the distributional effects of urban policies and their implications for the design of transportation and housing markets.

I will join the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Professor of Economics in August 2026. I completed my PhD in Economics at Stanford in June 2024.

Contact: pearlzli16 [at] gmail [dot] com