Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- y.aoki@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272182
- Office Address
Room: S66 Edward Wright Building University of Aberdeen Dunbar Street Old Aberdeen UK, AB24 3QY Office hour: by appointment
- School/Department
- Business School
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
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 clustering outcomes. She is also working on the project on the effects of the access to fast-food outlets on adolescent body weights.
Here is her CV.
- Research
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Research Overview
Main Fields: Labour Economics, Health Economics
Secondary Fields: Applied Econometrics, Economics of Crime
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
BU5025 Quantitative Methods (postgraduate)
PU5546 Health Economics for Health Professionals (postgraduate)
EC3524 Health Economics (undergraduate)
- Publications
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Where to live?: English proficiency and residential location of UK migrants
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 221, pp. 73-93Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Intergenerational Mobility of White Working Class Boys: A Quantitative Analysis
Working Papers: Discussion PapersSpeak better, do better? Education and health of migrants in the UK
Labour Economics, vol. 52, pp. 1-17Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2018.03.003
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12941/1/AokiSantiago_ehf.pdf
No. 11368: Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants: Does English Proficiency Matter?
Working Papers: Working PapersDonating time to charity: working for nothing?
Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 97-117Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpw048
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11174/1/Aoki_Manuscript_Final_ver.pdf
More Schooling, Less Youth Crime?: Learning from an Earthquake in Japan
Working Papers: Discussion PapersAre immigrants more likely to commit crimes?: Evidence from France
Applied Economics Letters, vol. 16, no. 15, pp. 1537–1541Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504850701578892