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Ms Yue Qu

PhD Student

8.25, 8/F., The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus

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Ms Yue Qu
  • Qu Yue is a full-time PhD student at HKU Sociology. She received her Master’s degree in Economics and Education from Columbia University. After graduation, she spent two years as a full-time data product manager at Alibaba Cloud.


    Yue’s research interests include economic sociology, school-to-work transition, and social inequality. Having worked at Alibaba Cloud, she has further developed two substantive research interests in this field: the heterogeneous returns to college and income inequality in the labor market, using computational social science methods and life course approach to evaluate the causal impacts of educational choices. 

  • Master of Arts in Economics and Education

    Columbia University


    Bachelor of Economics in Finance

    Sichuan University

    • Labor Economics and Higher Education

    • Social Stratification and Inequality

    • Computational Social Science

    • Life Course

  • Yue’s current research focuses on:

    A life course approach to income inequality: age-graded wage returns of STEM majors.

  • 2019 Merit-based Admission Scholarship, Columbia University

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