CV
Current position
Associate Professor and Dean, Yonsei University, EastAsia International College
Employment Record
2018- Associate professor, Yonsei University, Mirae Campus, EastAsia International College
2014- 2018 Assistant professor, Yonsei University, Mirae Campus, EastAsia International College
2012-2014 Assistant professor, Yonsei University, Mirae Campus, Department of Economics
2010-2012 BK 21 post-doctoral fellow, Seoul National University, Department of Economics
2006-2010 Research and teaching assistant, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Publications in SSCI journals
Hierarchies and decision-making in groups: experimental evidence. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (10), 2023.
Determinants of lifestyle choices among South Korean college students : an experimental analysis. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy (15), 2022.
Loss aversion and health behaviors : results from two incentivized economic experiments. Healthcare, 9(8), 2021.
Testing a one-item risk measure to predict Alameda Seven health behaviors in the Republic of Korea. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(1), 2021.
Preferences, personality and health behaviors: results from an explorative economic experiment. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 18(4), 2018.
Religion and Fertility in East Asia: Evidence from the East Asian Social Survey. Pacific Economic Review 23(3), 2018.
With M. Palumbarit: Comparing South Korea's and Germany's Climate-Related ODA and Motivation of Its Allocation in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 8(5), 2016.
Love Actually ? Dissecting the Marriage-Happiness Relationship. Asian Economic Journal 29(1), 2015.
With U. Backes-Gellner: Staying within or leaving the apprenticeship training system? Revisions of educational choices in apprenticeship training. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik/Journal of Economics and Statistics, 235(6), 2015.
Religion and Education in East Asia: First Evidence from the East Asian Social Survey. Global Economic Review 42(3), 2013.
With J. Hur: A Comparison of Higher Education Reform in South Korea and Germany. Asia Pacific Education Review 14(2), 2013.
Learning Healthy Behaviors? The Impact of Training in Health Care Professions on Lifestyles. Health Economics 21(11), 2012.
International Student Migration to Germany. Empirical Economics 42(1), 2012.
Scholarships, Grants and Awards
2022 With Sung Ho Park and HeeSun Kim : Convergence research and teaching development grant, Yonsei University (co-investigator)
2017 Future-Leading Research Initiative Grant, Yonsei University (PI)
2015 Research Grant, National Research Foundation of Korea (PI)
2014 Research Grant for New Faculty, Yonsei University (PI)
2008 Research Grant of the Fund for the Promotion of Young Scholars (FAN), Zürcher Universitätsverein (PI)
2008/09 Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for doctoral students
2005 Scholarship of the German National Science Foundation (DFG) for doctoral students
1998 Award of the foundation "Humanismus heute" for excellent high school performance in Latin
Education
2006-2010 Dr. oec. publ. (Ph.D. in Management and Economics), magna cum laude, University of Zurich
2008-2009 Visiting Student Researcher, UC Berkeley, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
2000-2005 Diplom-Volkswirtin (B.Sc.&M.Sc. in Economics), summa cum laude, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2002-2003 Exchange student, Université de Lausanne, École des Hautes Études Commerciales
Language Skills
English (fluent), French (fluent), Korean (good), German (native), (Latin and Ancient Greek)
Contact Information
Yonsei University, EastAsia International College, Jeongui Hall, 337
Yonseidae-gil 1
220-710 Wonju
Republic of Korea
dbessey"at"yonsei.ac.kr
Complete CV (pdf)
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