Welcome!
I am an assistant professor at Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. My research fields are economic history, development, education, market design, industrial organization, and urban economics.
email address: ilmyounghwang@gmail.com
Publication
Monetary incentives on inter-caste marriages in India: Theory and evidence (with Ali Hortcasu and Divya Mathur), Journal of Development Economics, 141, 2019. (Link to the gated version)
Top floor discounts in residential buildings: Evidence from South Korea (with Leo Ma), Real Estate Economics, 51(2):441-469, 2022, Appendix (Link to the gated version)
Economic consequences of kinship: Evidence from U.S. bans on cousin marriage (with Arkadev Ghosh and Munir Squires), Quarterly Journal of Economics 138(4): 2559-2606. (Link to the gated version)
Links and legibility: Making sense of historical U.S. Census automated linking methods (with Arkadev Ghosh and Munir Squires), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 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
Linked samples and measurement error in historical U.S. census data (with Munir Squires), Explorations in Economic History, vol. 93, 2024. (Link to the gated version)
Health effects of cousin marriage: Evidence from U.S. genealogical records (with Deaglan Jakob and Munir Squires) (Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review: Insights)
Working paper/Work in progress
Economic history
The Dead and the Fatherless: Intergenerational Mobility of the Forgotten (with Munir Squires)
Improving Historical Census Transcriptions: A Machine Learning Approach (with Christian Møller Dahl, Torben S.D. Johansen, and Munir Squires)
Education reform and behavioral response: Evidence from South Korea (with Sejin Ahn and Oguz Bayraktar) (Under revision)
Education/matching market design
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)