Kim, S., Culbertson, M., Grodsky, E., Muller, C., and Warren, J. R. (2026) “Human capital and racial and ethnic gaps in mid-life labor market outcomes: Evidence from High School and Beyond 1980”, Economics of Education Review, ungated.
Kim, S. (2025) “Effects of a Non-Traditional Teacher Preparation Program on Non-Test Outcomes: Evidence from Relay Graduate School in New York City”. Education Economics. SSRN, EdWorkingPaper, ungated.
Brickman, A., Muller, C., Warren, J. R., Grodsky, E., Kim, S., Culbertson, M.J., Thyagarajan, B., & Manly, J. (2025) “Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarker Concentrations Across Race and Ethnicity Groups in Middle-Aged Adults”. JAMA Network Open, 8(11).
Warren, J. R., Rumore, G., Kim, S., Grodsky, E., Muller, C., Manly, J., & Brickman, A. (2025) “Childhood Fluoride Exposure and Cognition Across the Life Course”, Science Advances, 11(47). Replication package. CNN.
Kim, S., Yun, J., Schneider, B., Broda, M., Klager, C., & Chen, I. (2022) “The Effects of Growth Mindset on College Persistence and Completion”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 195, 219-235. pdf EdWorkingPapers
Kim, S. (2021) “College Enrollment over the Business Cycle: The Role of Supply Constraints”, Education Economics, 29(1), 32-52. pdf Appendix Online Appendix
Kim, S., Klager, C., & Schneider, B. (2019) “The Effects of Alignment of Educational and Occupational Expectations in High School on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from NLSY79”, Journal of Higher Education. 90(6), 992-1015. pdf appendix
Kim, S., Wallsworth. G., Xu, R., Schneider, B., Frank, K., Jacob, B., & Dynarski, S. (2019) “The Impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum on High School Math Course-Taking", Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 41(2), 164-188. pdf Media Bridge MSU Today MSU CED
Schneider, B., Kim, S., & Klager, C. (2017) “Co-Development of Education Aspirations and Postsecondary Enrollment Especially Among Students Who Are Low Income and Minority", Research in Human Development, 13(2), 143-160. pdf
Kim, S. (2017) “Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Korea”, IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 7(21). pdf
Kim, S. & Kim, C. S. (2010) “Do S&P 500 and KOSPI Move Together?: A Functional Regression Approach”, Korean Economic Review, 26(2).
Kim, S., Bae. S., & Song, T. (2008) “Studies on Industrial Competitiveness based on Specialization Index: Empirical Analysis of Manufacturing Industry", Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Technology (KIET), Korea
Kim, S., Soh, J., Lumpe, A., & Milanowski, A. “The Effects of Alternative Teacher Preparation on Black Teacher-Student Matching and Non-Test Outcomes: Evidence from New York City”. R&R, Teachers College Record.
Nigel, B., Kim, S., Bradford, L., & Broda, M. “Discovering Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Subgroups with Interpretable Machine Learning in a Large-scale Mindset and Belonging Experiment”. R&R, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.
Warren, J. R., Grodsky, E., Muller, C., Manly, J., Brickman, A., Kim, S., Himmelstern, J., & Demmer, R. “Periodontal Disease, Biomarkers of ADRD Risk, and Cognitive Functioning”. R&R.
Warren, J. B., Culbertson, M., Grodsky, E., Muller, C., Conwell, J., Erving, C. Kim, S., and Brickman, A. “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Midlife Cognitive Test Performance: The Role of Education”. R&R. Demography.
Grodsky, E., Kim, S., Culbertson, M., Warren, J. R., Muller, C., Brickman, A., and Manly, J. “Beyond Credentials: Understanding Educational Gradients in Cognitive Function at Midlife”.
Kim, S., Klager, C., & Schneider, B. "Aspirational Reference Points, Alignment in Expectation, Occupational Sorting, and Intergenerational Mobility".
Kim, S. "Occupational Task Demand and Late-Life Cognition: Evidence from the NLSY79".
Kim, S., Kim, S. H., and Lee., S. “Perceived Social Norms and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam”.
Lee, S., Kim, S., and Kim, S.H. "Beyond Human Capital: Behavioral Determinants of Technical Efficiency Variance in Vietnamese Agriculture".
Kim, S., Kim, S. H., and Lee., S. “Bonding trust, bridging trust, and the intergenerational education gradient: Daughter-specific evidence from rural Vietnam”.
Kim, S., Jeong, Y., & Ko, H. “Bonding and Bridging Social Capital in the Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking: Evidence from Rural Vietnam”.
Kim, S. "Mid-Career Job Displacement and Late-Life Cognitive and Biological Aging".
Manly, J. J., Brickman, A. M., Kim, S., Culbertson, M.J., Grodsky, E., Muller, C., Warren, J.B. “Association of Blood-based Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease with Cognition and Educational Experiences in Midlife”.
Kim, S. “Return to Algebra II: The Effect of Mandatory Math Coursework on Postsecondary Attainment”. pdf SSRN Media Bridge
Kim, S., Schneider, B., & Yun, J. “Estimating the Impact of Growth Mindset on High School Mathematics Performance and Course-taking”. pdf
Kim, S., and Meyer, R. H. “Recovering academic losses during COVID-19: Evidence from State Academic Recovery Camp”.
Dominitz, J., Kim, S., Meyer, R. H., & Rice, A. “Producing Long-Term Forecasts of Individual Student Outcomes: An Application of Chain-Linked Predictive Analytics Models with Short-Span Data and Education Policy Regime Change”.
Distributional Effects of Generic Risk on Cognition, and ADRD Biomarkers
The (mis)measure of health: Variation in estimates of health inequity across sources of measurement
Financial Health, Biological Stress, and Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from Consumer Credit Report
Yun, J., Kim, S., Schneider, B., & Lee, H. “Challenges to Casual Attribution and Estimation in Randomized Light-touch Interventions: Learning from the Spartan Persistence Project”.
Dominitz, J., Kim, S., & Meyer, R. H. “Predictive and Contingent Analytics to Assess Risk and Strategies to Improve Educational Outcomes”.
Kim, S. “Why We Need to Examine Subgroup Racial and Ethnic Differences in Course-taking and Achievement Gap".
Kim, S., Troutman, R., Minor, E., Schneider, B., & Frank, K. “High School Transcript Study".