Biography

Yu is Lecturer (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.

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Research Overview

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)