Lili Loan Vu
PhD (UWA)
MA (UTS)
Development economics, health economics, food and nutrition security, child health and development
Biography
Dr Lili Loan Vu is a Research Fellow at the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre. Lili completed her PhD in Economics at the University of Western Australia. She also holds a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Technology Sydney.
Lili is an applied micro-econometrics researcher specialised in development economics and health economics. The focus of her research has been on understanding household-level socio-economic factors that can influence maternal and child health outcomes, gender and food security issues in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, Myanmar and Vietnam.
Lili is also interested in investigating the impacts of domestic violence on child health, cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes in Australia. She has published in highly ranking international journals such as the Journal of Development Studies and PLOS Medicine.
Projects
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Indigenous Employment Index
The Minderoo Foundation’s Generation One initiative pursues a goal to achieve employment parity with and for Indigenous Australians within one generation. This means engaging and retaining 250,000 Indigenous people in employment in the next two decades. Noting that the lack... Read article
Publications
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Employment and disability in Australia: Improving employment outcomes for people with disability
Employment and disability in Australia, the tenth report in the BCEC Focus on the States series, looks at improving employment outcomes for people with disability in Australia. The report reveals that there has been no improvement in employment rates for people... Read article
Gender Equity Insights 2023: Accelerating the pace of change
The eighth report in the Gender Equity Insights series from the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) looks at the gender equality strategies at nearly 4,800 Australian employers to determine what factors are accelerating... Read article
Executive Summary: Gender Equity Insights 2023: Accelerating the pace of change
The BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity Insights 2023 Executive Summary is a printable summary of the key findings and infographics from this year’s report, Gender Equity Insights 2023: Accelerating the pace of change, which looks at the gender equality strategies at nearly... Read article
Exposure to conflict and child health outcomes: evidence from a large multi-country study
Previous research has consistently found evidence of poor health outcomes among children living in conflict areas. However, the methodological focus of these studies has largely been on case studies, chart or registry reviews, qualitative studies, and single country studies. This... Read article
Bridging the Gap: Population, skills and labour market adjustment in WA
This sixteenth report in the Focus on WA series takes a rigorous look at skills shortages and labour market dynamics in the WA labour market and provides a fresh conceptual look at what skills shortages are, new empirical evidence on... Read article
Woort Koorliny: Australian Indigenous Employment Index 2022
The Indigenous Employment Index was commissioned by Minderoo’s Generation One initiative, partnering with Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and Murawin Consulting, as an Australian first to identify and measure practices within large organisations that increase and improve Indigenous employment. The goal... Read article
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre team acknowledges the Wadjuk Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Centre is situated.