Research

Publications

“Economic Analysis of Foreign Education and Students Abroad,” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 56 (2), August 1998, 337-365.

“Accounting for the recent surge in U.S. Patenting: Changes in R&D expenditures, patent yields, and the high-tech sector,” (with G. Marschke), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 13, September 2004.

“Sex Selection and Fertility in a Dynamic Model of Conception and Abortion,” Journal of Population Economics, 18 (1), 2005. [Kuznets Prize awarded for Best Article 2004-2006]

“Japan’s High Saving Rate in the 1960s through the 1980s,” Korea Review of Applied Economics, 7, no. 1, June 2005.

“Labor Mobility of Scientists, Technological Diffusion, and the Firm’s Patenting Decision,” (with G. Marschke), Rand Journal of Economics, 36, no. 2, Summer 2005.

“Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Economic Growth: Can a Malthusian Framework Account for the Conflicting Historical Population Trends?” (with I. Ehrlich), Journal of Asian Economics, 16 (5), October 2005.

“Social Security and Demographic Trends: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience,” (with I. Ehrlich), Review of Economic Dynamics, 10 (1), January 2007.

“Has Social Security Influenced Family Formation and Fertility in OECD Countries? An Economic and Econometric Analysis,” (with I. Ehrlich), Pharmaceuticals Policy and Law, 9, 2007.

“How Much U.S. Technological Innovation Begins in Universities?” (with G. Marschke), Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, April 1, 2007.

“The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development: A Human Capital Perspective,” (with I. Ehrlich), Journal of Human Capital, 1 (1), 137-174, Winter 2007.

“Relation of Firm Size to R&D Productivity, ” (with S. Lee and G. Marschke), International Journal of Business and Economics, 8 (1), pp. 7-19, 2009.

“Inventor Productivity and Firm Size: Evidence from Panel Data on Inventors,” (with S. Lee and G. Marschke), Pacific Economic Review, 14 (4), pp. 516-531, 2009.

"Catching-up and Falling-behind in Economic Development: A Human Capital Approach," Korea Review of Applied Economics, 13 (3), pp. 5-45, 2011. [Namsan Prize awarded for Best Article 2011]

"Past and Future of the Labor Force in Emerging Asian Economies," Japan and the World Economy, 24 (2), pp. 87-100, 2012.

“Foreign Direct Investment and Country-Specific Human Capital,” (with J. Park), Economic Inquiry, 51 (1), pp. 198-210, January 2013.

“Economics of Intellectual Property in the Context of a Shifting Innovation Paradigm: A Review from the Perspective of Developing Countries,” (with K. Lee, J. Oh, and K. Park) Global Economic Review, 42 (1), pp. 29-42, March 2013.

"Incentives for Journal Editors," (with K. Koh), Canadian Journal of Economics, 47 (1), pp. 348-371, February 2014.

“Patent Portfolio Management of Sequential Inventions: Evidence from US Patent Renewal Data,” Review of Industrial Organization, Volume 47, Issue 2, pp. 195-218, September 2015. (DOI: 10.1007/s11151-015-9468-x)

“Immigration, Human Capital Formation, and Endogenous Economic Growth,” (with I. Ehrlich), Journal of Human Capital, 9(4), pp. 518-563, December 2015. (DOI: 10.1086/684717)

“Comment on “The Effect of Parental Absence on Child Development in Rural China,” Asian Economic Policy Review, 12 (1), pp. 137-138, January 2017.

“Productivity Profiles of Korean Inventors: A First Look at the Korean Inventor Panel Data,” Korean Journal of Labour Economics (노동경제논집), 41 (3), pp. , September 2018.

“Gender Inequality and Economic Growth in Korea,” (with Jong-Wha Lee and Kwanho Shin), Pacific Economic Review, 23 (4), pp. 658-682, October 2018.

Book Chapters (Refereed)

“International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from an Inventor-Firm Matched Data Set” (with S. J. Lee and G. Marschke), Science and Engineering Careers in the United States. Richard B. Freeman and Daniel F. Goroff (eds), Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press for NBER Science Engineering Workforce Project, pp. 321-348, 2009.

“Impact of University Scientists on Innovations in Nanotechnology” (with S. Lee and G. Marschke), Intellectual Property for Economic Development. S. Ahn, B. Hall and K. Lee (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing, Chapter 2, pp. 141-158, July 2014 (ISBN: 978 1 78254 804 1).

Publications in Korean (Refereed)

“국민연금기대자산 추정 및 노동공급에 미치는 효과 - 남성가구주 임금근로자의 노동시간을 중심으로 (The Calculation of Pension Wealth and Effect on Labor Supply),” (이만우, 김대철 공저), 재정학연구, 1 (1), 143-186, 2008년 2월.

“국민연금제도의 가계저축 구축효과 분석 (Empirical Analysis of the Crowding Out Effect of the National Pension on Household Private Savings),” (이만우, 김대철 공저), 경제분석, 14 (2), 2008 년 6월.

“기업 규모와 특허 생산성 (Firm Size and Patent Productivity),” (윤유진 공저), 응용경제, 11 (1), 177-194, 2009년 6월.

"데이터 매칭을 이용한 비정규직의 임금격차 분석 (Wage Differentials between Regular and Irregular Workers)," (김선애 공저), 노동경제논집, 34 (2), 139-163, 2011년 8월.

“한국 기술연구 인력의 특허 생산성 (Patent Productivity of Korean Inventors),” 한국경제의 분석, 18 (2), 1-35, 2012년 8월.

“혼전임신의 이혼에 대한 영향 고찰,” (김송희 공저), 응용경제, 18 (1), 109-138, 2016년 3월.

“자녀와 부모 은퇴 결정에 대한 일고,” 한국경제의 분석, forthcoming.

Book Chapters in Korean

“고령화와 만성질환” (김범수 공저) 고령화 시대: 삶의 패러다임, 고려대학교 출판부, 2012년 10월 30일