About Me

Ayoung Kim


Assistant Professor|Regional Economist


Dept. of Agricultural Economics

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, MS 39762

Email: a.kim@msstate.edu / akim0402@gmail.com


graduated with

Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, 2017

Dissertation: Productivity in the US: The Economics Consequences of Regional Agglomeration and Immigration Policy  

(Outstanding Ph.D.  Dissertation for 2017, Agricultural Economics, Purdue University)

M.A. in Mathematics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, 2012

Project: A study on Multiquadric Radial Basis Functions for Interpolation

M.A. in Agricultural Economics and Regional Development, Seoul National University, 2008 

Thesis: Impact of housing policies on housing demand and income distribution using CGE model

B.S. in Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, 2005