Junjian Yi is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Yi focuses on both theoretically and empirically analyzing family behaviors and human capital.

Yi received both M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007 and 2011, respectively, supervised by Prof. Junsen Zhang and an M.A. in Economics from Zhejiang University in 2005.