Contact Details

Telephone

work +44 (0)1224 272182

work +44 (0)1224 437185

Email

y.aoki@abdn.ac.uk

Address

The University of Aberdeen Room: S66 Edward Wright Building University of Aberdeen Dunbar Street Old Aberdeen UK, AB24 3QY Office hour: by appointment

Biography

Yu is Assistant Professor in Economics in the Business School and the Health Economics Research Unit, and an IZA Research Fellow. Yu completed her MSc and PhD in Economics at the University of Warwick. She is an applied micro-econometrician working in the fields of labour and health economics. She is currently doing research on the social integration of immigrants in the UK, focusing on one of the possible key factors for integration: Language skills. In particular, she uses natural experiments to identify the causal impact of English proficiency on various immigrant outcomes including education, health, and residential segregation outcomes. She also works on the projects on child health and on crime.

CV

Research Interests

Main Fields: Labour Economics, Health Economics, Economics of Education

Secondary Fields: Applied Econometrics, Economics of Crime

Teaching Responsibilities

BU5025 Quantitative Methods (postgraduate)

BU5570 Topics in Health Economics and Econometrics (postgraduate)

BU5569 Economics of the Health Workforce (postgraduate)

EC3524 Health Economics (undergraduate)

Admin Responsibilities

Seminar organiser in Economics

Publications