Research Interests

Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Crime, Economics of Education

Publications

• “Modeling College Major Choices Using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals” (with Peter Arcidiacono and V. Joseph Hotz) Journal of Econometrics 166.1 (2012): 3-16.

• “An Experimental Evaluation of a Comprehensive Employment-oriented Prisoner Re-entry Program” (with Philip Cook, Anthony A. Braga, Jens Ludwig, and Mallory O’Brien) Journal of Quantitative Criminology 31.3 (2015): 355-382.

• “Birthdays, Schooling, and Crime: Regression-discontinuity Analysis of School Performance, Delinquency, Dropout, and Crime Initiation” (with Philip Cook) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8.1 (2016): 33-57.

• “Inequality and Crime Revisited: Effects of Local Inequality and Economic Segregation on Crime” Journal of Population Economics 29.2 (2016): 593-626.

• “The Consequences of Sex Offender Residency Restriction: Evidence from North Carolina” International Review of Law and Economics 49 (2017): 10-22.

• “Relative Income, Suicidal Ideation, and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from South Korea” (with Soo Hwan Lim) Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics 60.1 (2019): 107-120.

• “Girls to the Front: How Redshirting and Test-score Gaps are Affected by a Change in the School-entry Cut Date” (with Philip Cook) Economics of Education Review 76 (2020): 101968.

• “Evidence-based Crime-control Policies” Korean Journal of Law and Economics (in Korean) 18.1 (2021): 1-10.

• “Focus vs. Spread: Police Box Consolidation and Its Impact on Crime in Korea” (with Duol Kim) International Review of Law and Economics 70 (2022): 106062.

• “Did Secure Communities Lead to Safer Communities? Immigration Enforcement, Crime Deterrence, and Geographical Externalities” (with B.K. Song) Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 38.2 (2022): 345-385.

• "The Effect of High School Peers on Juvenile Delinquency" Korean Economic Review, 39.1 (2023): 137–173.

• "The Effect of Housing Price Inequality on Mental Health'' (with Hyelim Son and B.K. Song) Labour Economics 85 (2023): 102460.

• "The Effect of the `Selective Two-Child' Policy on the First Child'' (with Jing Wang) Journal of Economic Research 28.3 (2023): 249-271.

• "Liberty, Safety, and Misdemeanor Bail" (with Brandon Garrett, Sandra Guerra Thompson, Dottie Carmichael, and David Shi) Florida Law Review, forthcoming.