Published Papers
SSCI listed journal
"Credit Constraint and Excess Return: Case of Chonsei Lease in Korea", The Korean Economic Reivew 2021
"Son Preference and Fertility Decision: Evidence from Spatiotemporal Variation in Korea (with Seik Kim), Demography, 2020.
“Measuring Effort Incentive in a Tournament with Many Participants: Theory and Application” (with Chirok Han and Changhui Kang), Economic Inquiry, 54(2), 2016
“Being Knowledgeable or Sociable?: Different Patterns of Human Capital Development and Evaluation in Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills” (with Changhui Kang), The Korean Economic Review 31(1), 2015
“The Incentive Effect of Coarsening the Competition Structure in a Tournament”, Economics Letters 125(3), 2014
“The Incentive Effect of a Handicap”, Economics Letters 118(1), 2013
"Jumping the Curse: Early Contracting with Private Information in University Admissions", International Economic Review 50(1), 2009
"A Theory of Self-Selection in a Market with Matching Friction: An Application to Delay in Refereeing Times in Economics Journals", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization72, 2009
Korean Journal
in English
“Income Inequality and the Demand for Redistribution: A Test of Alternative Theories” (with Hisam Kim), Journal of Economic Research 24(1), 2019
“The Optimal Aggregation of Multiple Signals: Optimality of Linear Aggregation Rule and Possibility of Using the Maximum or the Minimum of Signals” (with Joonbae Lee), Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics 25(4), 2014
“Competition and Cooperation when the Pool of Competitors is Expanded”, Journal of Economic Research 19(3), 2014
in Korean
“Tuition Level and Choice of College by Income Classes”, Journal of Korean Economic Studies 37(1), 2019.
“Open Social Network vs Closed Social Network: A Theoretical Approach to the Effect of the Exclusiveness of the Network”, KDI Journal of Economic Policy 36(2), 2014
“The Demand for Shadow Education: A Theoretical Approach", Korea Review of Applied Economics 15(1), 2013
"An Evaluation of NURI (New University for Regional Innovation): Focusing on Changes in Graduate Employment" (with Hisam Kim), KDI Journal of Economic Policy 30(2), 2008
“An Evaluation of Fiscal Policy Response to Economic Cycles”, KDI Journal of Economic Policy 28(2), 2006
Working Paper
“Group Difference Along Mutable Identities: A Case of Religious Affiliations,” 2021.
Work in Progress
"Sibship Size and Gender Inequality in Educational Achievement"