Faculty Collective-Yoko Mimura
Yoko Mimura is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences. Her past and current research falls under three main themes: financial behaviors, poverty dynamics, and low income housing. With respect to financial behavior, a current project examines the associations between financial savings and three types of unexpected lifecycle events–including job loss, the onset of mental or physical disabilities of self or family members, and marital dissolution–to advance our understanding of the current recession and issues of intra-national economic inequality. One paper within this theme focuses on women in Japan, and the other will focus on individuals and families in the United States. The poverty dynamics project will investigate the role that health disparity plays in explaining the variations in migration success, and the research project on low income housing will examine the association between housing wealth, health care access and cost, and individual physical and psychological well-being. Students may advance literature reviews, co-author manuscripts for professional meetings, give presentations at conferences, and co-author manuscripts in peer reviewed journals.