Publications

This portfolio is organized by scientific problem rather than chronology. The three core sections mirror my research program, showing how individual studies contribute to better measurement, stronger health-information systems, and demographic inference under incomplete data.

Recent and ongoing work appears alongside established evidence within each theme. Paper titles and figures link directly to the DOI or publication page; publication status is shown inline. Yue Chu is shown in bold, with first, joint-first, and corresponding authorship identified where applicable. Google Scholar · Full academic CV

Measurement, Reporting, and Data Quality

How respondents, interviewers, instruments, and collection settings generate omission, displacement, misclassification, and other bias in population-health data.

What Adaptive Questioning Does to Demographic Measurement: Evidence from Verbal Autopsy Surveys

Yue Chu et al.

Working paper · presented at the 2026 FDS Workshop on AI for Social Science Research Methods, Yale University

First author

2026 working paper

Sufficiency of Information in Population Surveys: Evidence from Verbal Autopsy

Yue Chu et al.

Poster presented at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America.

Working paper

2026 working paper

Mortality Measurement, Validation, and Health Information Systems

Designing, validating, monitoring, and integrating cause-of-death measurement tools across research, surveillance, and civil-registration environments.

How Much Post-Mortem Testing Does Cause-of-Death Surveillance Need? The Value of MITS Beyond Verbal Autopsy in Under-5 Deaths

Yue Chu et al.

Working paper

First author

2026 working paper

Demographic Inference Under Incomplete and Misclassified Data

Estimating fertility, mortality, and cause-of-death patterns from incomplete histories and heterogeneous survey, surveillance, registration, and modeled evidence.

Changes in age at last birth over the course of contemporary fertility declines

J. B. Casterline, S. R. Hayford, Yue Chu.

Under review

2026 manuscript

Afghanistan Health Survey 2018

Ministry of Public Health (Afghanistan); KIT Royal Tropical Institute.

Amsterdam: KIT Royal Tropical Institute; 2018. Role: consultant demographer; conducted the mortality and cause-of-death analysis and drafted the corresponding report sections.

Technical report

2018 report

Additional Collaborative Epidemiology and Evidence Synthesis

Selected collaborations applying epidemiologic, Bayesian, and evidence-synthesis methods beyond the three core research lines.