Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  yu.yijun.4xkyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

• From Nov. 2025

  East Asian Economic Association (EAEA)
• From Sep. 2025

  Japan Health Economics Association
• From 2023, To Present

  Japanese Association for Development Economics (JADE)

Academic Degree

• 23 Sep. 2020

  京都大学修士（経済学）
• 24 Sep. 2024

  京都大学博士（経済学）

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• 香港中文大学（深せん）, 経済管理学部経済学専攻, 卒業

Research History

• From Apr. 2025, To Present

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Economics, Program-Specific Assistant Professor
• From Nov. 2024

  Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Institute of Applied Health Research, Post-doctoral Researcher

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0009-0000-6463-0675

• J-Global ID

  202501000193707885

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/yijun_yu

Research

Research Interests

• Education
• Family
• Gender
• Applied Econometrice
• Health Economics
• Development Economics

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences, Economic policy, Development Economics

Papers

• Can judicial independence restrain corporate fraud? Empirical evidence from Chinese A-share listed firms

  Tengjiao He; Yijun Yu; Yufei Zhang; Li Wang

  International Review of Law & Economics, Feb. 2026

  
• Maternal Education and Child Development: Insights From Nutritional Status in Kenya

  Hang Thu Nguyen‐Phung; Yijun Yu; Phuc H. Nguyen; Hai Le

  Health Economics, 31 Jan. 2026

  
• The impact of judicial independence on the corporate debt financing cost − Empirical evidence from China

  Yufei Zhang; Yijun Yu; Yimeng Zhang; Tengjiao He

  Journal of Contemporary Accounting &Economics, Dec. 2025

  
• Women’s Empowerment in Zimbabwe: Examining the Role of Educational Reform

  Yijun Yu; Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung; Hai Le

  Social Indicators Research, Mar. 2025

  
• Maternal education and child survival: causal evidence from Kenya

  Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung; Yijun Yu; Phuc H Nguyen; Hai Le

  Review of Economics of the Household, 18 Jun. 2024

  
• Fertility Policy and Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from the Two-Child Policy Reform in China

  Yijun Yu

  May 2024

  

Presentations

• Fertility Policy and Statistical Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from the Two-Child Policy Reform in China

  Yijun Yu

  20th East Asian Economic Association (EAEA) International Convention, Nov. 2025

  
• Kenya’s educational reform: Evidence on how additional maternal education impacts children’s nutritional status

  Yijun Yu

  Japan Health Economics Association, Sep. 2025

  
• Kenya’s educational reform: Evidence on how additional maternal education impacts children’s nutritional status

  Yijun Yu

  The Centre for Healthcare Research seminar series at Oxford Brookes University, 10 Feb. 2025

  
• Fertility Policy and Statistical Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from the Two-Child Policy Reform in China

  Yijun Yu

  International Economic Association - World Bank (IEA-WB) Conference Gender Norms and the Law, Nov. 2024

  
• Fertility Policy and Statistical Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from the Two-Child Policy Reform in China

  Yijun Yu

  The Chinese Economic Association (CEA) Europe/UK Annual Conference, Aug. 2024

  
• Fertility Policy and Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from the Two-Child Policy Reform in China,

  Yijun Yu

  The Quantitative Social Science Workshop at Peking University, Aug. 2023

  
• Fertility Policy and Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from the Two-Child Policy Reform in China,

  Yijun Yu

  The 13th Next-Generation Global Workshop, Nov. 2020