Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Public Budgeting and Finance in the School of Public Policy at the University of Connecticut.
My research studies how fiscal information shapes government accountability and the cost of public capital. I examine how governments communicate financial information, and how voters and bond markets respond, with a particular focus on school district capital finance. A newer line of work asks who manages public money and whether their backgrounds shape fiscal outcomes. My work emphasizes causal inference, drawing on natural experiments, administrative data, and experiments. I have received funding from the Center for Connecticut Education Research Collaboration. My research has appeared in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART), Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, National Tax Journal, Public Budgeting & Finance, Policy Studies Journal, and Comparative Political Studies, among others. I teach courses on public budgeting and finance, capital finance, and quantitative research methods.
I hold a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky, USA.
Any questions? Please feel free to get in touch. Email: jinhai.yu@uconn.edu.
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