Short Biography                                                                  

• Jihye Kam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Studies at Sungshin Women’s University. Jihye grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and graduated with a BA and MA in economics from Seoul National University, an MA in economics of education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an MS in economics and a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research areas are education policy, economics of education, applied microeconomics, and economic education. Jihye’s methodological research focuses on statistical methods to estimate the causal effects of educational policies and practices. In her dissertation, titled “Role of Institutional Diversity: Student Affinity for Preferred College Major,” she examined the extent to which the elimination of race-conscious admissions policies affects students’ choice of college major by using a difference-in-differences identification strategy. Jihye was an Assistant Professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen in China before joining in Sungshin Women’s University. She held a research assistant position at Seoul National University, New York University, the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jihye also participated in the Summer Internship Program in Research for Graduate Students at Educational Testing Service (ETS). Jihye’s research focuses on the effectiveness of school accountability systems, value-added measures in teacher evaluation, the optimal design of admissions policies and teacher assignment rules, the relationship between postsecondary schooling and labor market outcomes, and the effect of school reforms on academic achievement and educational attainment.

• CV [Sept. 2025] - available upon request