Biography

Dr. Huang Yi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Management (SEM), Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM). She received her PhD degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA. Before she joined XMUM, she held the position of Assistant Professor at the Joint Research Institute, Nanjing Audit University, China. Her research focuses on environmental and urban economics.

Research Interest

Environmental Economics, Urban Economics, Real Estate

Educational Background

• PhD (Economics), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2020)

• MA (Economics), University of British Columbia, Canada (2012)

• BA (Economics), University of British Columbia, Canada (2011)

• BA (Finance), Nanjing Audit University, China (2007)

Working Experience

• Assistant Professor, Joint Research Institute, Nanjing Audit University (2020 to 2025).

• Instructor, Dept of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2018 to 2019).

Representative Publications

• Huang, Y., & Li, Y. (2023). Labor activism over searing heat. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 122, 102888.

• Huang, Y. (2021). Salience of hazard disclosure and house prices: evidence from Christchurch, New Zealand. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 88, 103679.

• Huang, Y., & Hewings, G. (2021). More reliable land price index: Is there a slope effect? Land, 10(3), 261.

• Huang, Y., & Dall’Erba, S. (2021). Does proximity to school still matter once access to your preferred school zone has already been secured? The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 62(4), 548-577.

• Han, X., Xu, Y., Fan, L., Huang, Y., Xu, M., & Gao, S. (2021). Quantifying COVID-19 importation risk in a dynamic network of domestic cities and international countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(31), e2100201118.

• Chen, S., Zhang, L., Huang, Y., Wilson, B., Mosey, G., & Deal, B. (2022). Spatial impacts of multimodal accessibility to green spaces on housing price in Cook County, Illinois. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 67, 127370.

  
  
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