Maiqi Yu is a pre-doctoral fellow at EPIC working with the Climate Impact Lab. She currently supports a project examining the labor market consequences of climate change, exploring how climate shifts reshape employment patterns and worker welfare. Before joining CIL, Maiqi worked as a research assistant at the Center for the Economics of Human Development, where she contributed to studies investigating the links between personality traits, economic preferences, and labor market behavior. She holds a Master’s in Social Science with a concentration in Economics from the University of Chicago. Her research interests center on labor and environmental economics.