About

Welcome to my academic website!

I am an Assistant Professor in the Program in Health Services & Systems Research/ Lien Centre for Palliative Care at Duke-NUS Medical School. My research focuses on enhancing the welfare of communities including marginalized groups, lying in behavioral & experimental economics as well as health economics.

I received my PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Georgia in 2019. One of my dissertation chapter related to weather index insurance demand received the Outstanding Student Paper Award in the Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. Another dissertation chapter about a panel price index received the Rod Ziemer Outstanding PhD paper Award at the University of Georgia. 

Prior to enrolling in the PhD program, I worked as a researcher at the Korea Small Business Institute, mostly focusing on agricultural cooperative policies for rural development in Honduras in a joint development effort between South Korea and Honduras. I also worked as a program coordinator in the Colombia oversea office at the Korea International Cooperation Agency.   

Contact: syshin@duke-nus.edu.sg 

Duke-NUS Medical School
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