Automation and Diverging Health Risks (with Ricardo B. Ang III, Giseong Kim, and Mike Pesko)
Investing in Health during Good and Bad Times: An Application to the China Shock (with Sunham Kim and Chong Xiang)
(previously, "Care for the China Syndrome: Trade Shock, Sick Workers, and Access to Healthcare")
Automation and Heterogeneous Earnings Dynamics (with Trevor Gallen)
Economics Letters, 2025.
What about the Impact of Dollarization on Poverty and Inequality? (with Alberto Chong)
Open Economies Review, 2025.
Labor Market Screening and the Design of Social Insurance: An Equilibrium Analysis of the Labor Market for the Disabled (with Naoki Aizawa and Serena Rhee)
(previously, "Labor Market Screening and Social Insurance Program Design for the Disabled")
Review of Economic Studies, 92, pp. 1-39, 2025.
Dynamic Effects of Long-Term Care Insurance on Medical Expenditures: Evidence from South Korea (with Honsoo Kim, Wonshik Kim, and Kyung Yang)
International Economic Journal, 37, pp. 446-461, 2023.
Understanding the Aggregate Effects of Disability Insurance (with Serena Rhee)
Review of Economic Dynamics, 46, pp.328-364, 2022.
Analyzing the Effects of Insuring Health Risks: On the Tradeoff between Short-Run Insurance Benefits vs. Long-Run Incentive Costs (with Harold L. Cole and Dirk Krueger)
Review of Economic Studies, 86(3), pp. 1123-1169, 2019.
Measuring the Effects of Employment Protection Policies for the Disabled: Theory and Evidence from the Americans with Disabilities Act (with Serena Rhee)
Labour Economics, 54, pp. 116-134, October 2018
The Effects of Migration on Optimal Taxation: An International Tax Competition Analysis
Revision requested by Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Works in Progress
An Evaluation of Social Security Reforms: Policy Substitution and Redistributive Consequences (with Serena Rhee)
The Labor Income and Capital Return Risk from Automation (with Trevor Gallen)
Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from the Migration of Innovators (with Kirk Doran)
Discussion
"The Labor Demand and Labor Supply Channels of Monetary Policy" (by S. Graves, C. Huckfeldt, and E. Swanson, 2024)
"How do Consumers Finance Increased Retirement Savings?" (by T. Choukhmane and C. Palmer, 2024)
"Marital Transitions, Housing, and Long-Term Care in Old Age" (by M. Chang and A. Ko, 2021)
"Inequality, Disaster Risk and the Great Recession" (by H. Kim, 2020)
"Optimal Taxation with Private Insurance" (by Y. Chang and Y. Park, 2018)
"Financial Frictions, Asset Prices, and the Great Recession" (by Z. Huo and V. Rios-Rull, 2018)
"How a Regressive Subsidy to EHI Enhances Entrepreneurship and Improves Welfare" (by Z. Feng and A. Villamil, 2015)
"Heterogeneity in the Dynamic Effects of Uncertainty on Investment" (by S. Byun and S. Jo, 2014)