Yu Aoki-Beattie is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics in the Business School and the Health Economics Research Unit, and an IZA Research Fellow. She completed her MSc and PhD in Economics at the University of Warwick.

She is an applied microeconometrician specialising in labour and health economics. Her research uses causal inference methods to analyse large-scale survey and administrative datasets. Her current research projects focus on the impact of dietary environments on child health in Britain, the effects of income segregation on child outcomes, and homelessness prevention in Britain. More recently, she has also collaborated with the UK public sector on research into the social integration of immigrants in the UK, with a particular focus on the role of language skills as a key driver of integration.

She joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in February 2012 and became a Research Fellow in July 2017.