Thank you for visiting my website! I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim and a member of the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 "Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges: Equality of Opportunity, Market Regulation, and Financial Stability."
My research focuses on Macroeconomics, Growth, Development, and Human Capital. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from UC San Diego in 2023.
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Email: minki.kim@uni-mannheim.de
Department of Economics
University of Mannheim
L7, 3-5 Room P.09, 68161
Mannheim, Germany
Misallocation and the Early Career Consequences of Student Debt
with Titan Alon and Natalie Cox. Revised and Resubmitted, American Economic Review
Previously circulated as "Debt, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Allocation of Talent"
Slackness, Openness, and the Anatomy of Cash Transfer Multipliers
with Mitchell VanVuren. Prepared for the Journal of Monetary Economics
(CRNYU special issue on "Macroeconomic Consequences of Micro-Development Policies")
STEG small research grant "Macroeconomic Impacts of Cash Transfers"
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Malaria Eradication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Previously circulated as How Will a New Malaria Vaccine Shape Africa's Economic Future? A Macroeconomic Analysis
STEG small research grant "Quantifying the Gains from Eradicating Malaria using a Structural Model" [STEG WP 090]
Press Coverage: VoxDev, CRC Newsroom, STEG Podcast (based on the old version)
From Tenancy to Ownership: Land Reform, Productivity, and Human Capital
with Munseob Lee
The Enduring Legacy of Educational Institutions: Evidence from Hyanggyo in Pre-Modern Korea
with Yeonha Jung and Munseob Lee
Fertility and Development: The Past, the Present and the Future
with Michèle Tertilt and Tom Vogl, in preparation for the Handbook of Economic Growth, Elsevier, Vol 3
(Editors: Ufuk Ackigit, Philipp Aghion, Steven Durlauf, and Nancy Qian)
The Impacts of Negative Income Tax on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
with Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Jungmin Lee, Seung-hun Lee, and Sangyoon Park
The U.S. Structural Transformation and Regional Convergence: Racial Heterogeneity
with Munseob Lee, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024
Macroeconomic Effects of COVID-19 Across the World Income Distribution
with Titan Alon, David Lagakos, and Mitchell VanVuren, IMF Economic Review, 2023
How Should Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Differ in the Developing World?
with Titan Alon, David Lagakos, and Mitchell VanVuren, NBER Working Paper No.27273,
Press Coverage: ProMarket, VoxEU, IGC Policy Brief
Real-Time Economic Impacts of COVID-19 in Ghana
with James Dzansi, David Lagakos, and Henry Telli, IGC Policy Brief (2021)
Protecting Lives and Livelihoods During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Shielding the Elderly Populations
with Titan Alon, James Dzansi, David Lagakos, Henry Telli, and Mitchell VanVuren, IGC Policy Brief (2020)
An Empirical Analysis on the Effects of Mobile Terminal Distribution Act in Korea
with Kyoung Hoon Lee, Korean Journal of Industrial Organization (2015); pre-doctoral publication, written in Korean
Frankfurt-Mannheim Macroeconomics Workshop [Program 2024][Program 2026]
Families in Macroeconomics, in Edesheim, Germany, on September 10-11, 2025 [Program]
University of Mannheim Economics Department Seminar (Spring 2025)
MSc Advanced Macroeconomics (Fall 2025)
MSc Development Economics (Fall 2023, Spring 2025, Spring 2026)
PhD Macroeconomics of Development (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)