Yujia Liu, Ph.D.

Yujia Liu, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Missouri, where she contributes quantitative and policy-analytic expertise to ERRE. She earned her Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Education Policy and Social Context from the University of California, Irvine, and holds an M.Ed. in International Education Policy and Management from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. Her research interests span education policy, teacher labor markets, causal inference, and rural education, with a portfolio of publications in leading outlets such as the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, The Internet and Higher Education, and Computers & Education. Her recent work examines STEM teacher characteristics and mobility in the American Midwest, the rural teacher workforce using a novel rurality measure, teacher mentoring and retention, and the effects of base salary increases on teacher labor supply. Yujia brings strong methodological skills in quantitative research and causal inference, along with experience analyzing large-scale administrative data on educators, positioning her to play a central role in ERRE’s labor market research and statewide educator survey work.