Assistant professor of economics, Vancouver School of Economics, The University of British Columbia
Contact: ilmyounghwang@gmail.com
Research Interests
Substantive topics: matching/marriage markets, economics of education
Methodological: structural econometric modeling, causal inference
Publication
[6] Health effects of cousin marriage: Evidence from U.S. genealogical records (with Deaglan Jakob and Munir Squires), American Economic Review: Insights (2025), vol. 7, No. 3.(Link to the gated version)
[5] Linked samples and measurement error in historical U.S. census data (with Munir Squires), Explorations in Economic History (2024), vol. 93. (Link to the gated version)
[4] Links and legibility: Making sense of historical U.S. Census automated linking methods (with Arkadev Ghosh and Munir Squires), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2024), 42(2), 579–590. (Link to the gated version)
Previous version, with comparative evaluation of migration across linking algorithms: Main text, Tables and figures, Appendix
[3] Economic consequences of kinship: Evidence from U.S. bans on cousin marriage (with Arkadev Ghosh and Munir Squires), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2024) 138(4): 2559-2606. (Link to the gated version)
[2] Top floor discounts in residential buildings: Evidence from South Korea (with Leo Ma), Real Estate Economics (2022), 51(2):441-469, Appendix (Link to the gated version)
[1] Monetary incentives on inter-caste marriages in India: Theory and evidence (with Ali Hortcasu and Divya Mathur), Journal of Development Economics (2019), 141. (Link to the gated version)
Working Papers
The Melting Pot: Industrialization and Integration in America (with Arkadev Ghosh and Munir Squires)
Improving Historical Census Transcriptions: A Machine Learning Approach (with Christian Møller Dahl, Torben S.D. Johansen, and Munir Squires)
Education market design in the presence of peer effects: theory and evidence from South Korea (with Oguz Bayraktar) (revised version coming soon)
How does heterogeneity in beliefs affect students in the Boston mechanism? (with Oguz Bayraktar) (revised version coming soon)
Education reform and behavioral response: Evidence from South Korea (with Sejin Ahn and Oguz Bayraktar) (Under revision)