Yining Li

Yining Li is pursuing an M.A. in International and Development Economics at Yale. She holds a B.A. in Economics with Honors and has a double major in Applied Mathematics, summa cum laude, from William & Mary. Her research interests include inequality, crime, labor economics, and development economics. She published an article on statelessness in an undergraduate law journal. Yining was a research assistant at William & Mary Global Research Institute in analyzing the impact of remittances on Internally Displaced Households and published an Op-Ed on this topic. Her research also involved the impact of the 9/11 attacks on Muslim labor market outcomes in the United States. She is a native Mandarin speaker and can communicate with basic Japanese.