Xin Meng (Chinese: 孟昕) FASSA is a Chinese economist and professor at the Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics (CBE), Australian National University (ANU).
She then obtained her master's degree in economics from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1984.
Meng continued her studies in economics in ANU and received her graduate diploma in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1993.
The funding of the project was granted by the Ford Foundation, the Institute for the Study of Labor, the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the Australian Research Council and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The paper analysed the effect of China's one-child policy using 400 subjects and their conclusion that it had created a generation of children who lacked qualities that were important for both social and economic success.