Fields of Interests

Economics of Education, Health Economics, Development Economics, and Labor Economics

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Working Papers (All drafts are available upon request)

• Effects of Fine Dust on Subjective Well-being of Adolescents: Evidence from South Korea (with Hazel Hye Seung Kang and Yongmi Kim)

• Effects of Teacher Gender on Student Academic and Noncognitive Outcomes: Evidence from Middle School Students in South Korea (with Julie Kim)

• “Impacts of In-Person School Days on Student Outcomes and Inequality: Evidence from Korean High Schools during the Pandemic” (with Hyuncheol Bryant Kim and Hee-Seung Yang)  In the news: 중앙일보, 한겨례, 매일경제, 경향신문, 세계일보 

• Does the difference in caregiver types explain the gender gap in long-term care institution use? Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance in Korea (with Hye Yoon Chung)

• Gender Heterogeneity in Peer Effects on Work: Evidence from Multi-dimensional Social Networks in Rural India (with Hee-Seung Yang and Jun Sung Kim) [PDF] 

• The Value of In-person Schooling during Times of Educational Disruption: Impacts on Students' Emotional Problems and Subjective Well-Being (with Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Minjeong Joyce Kim, and Hee-Seung Yang), R&R

• Does long-term care subsidy decrease healthcare utilization and expenditures? Evidence from the long-term care insurance in Korea (with GaYoung Park) R&R

Publications (Peer Reviewed Journal Articles)

• Early Sparks: Impacts of a STEM Bootcamp on Young Adolescents in Tanzania (with So Yoon Ahn and Semee Yoon) [HCEO Working Paper]  forthcoming, Economic Inquiry 

• Distributive Implications of Competitive Clientelism: Evidence from Bangladesh (with Kanti Nuzhat, Hee-Seung Yang and Haishan Yuan)  [PDF] [Appendix]  forthcoming, Economic Development and Cultural Change

• The Intergenerational Effects of Human Capital on Children's Education and Work Outcomes: Evidence from Malawi (with Hyelim Son and Minji Kwak), Journal of Comparative Economics 53, no. 2 (2025): 345-372.

• Trends and Determinants of the Gender Wage Gap by Type of Compensation. (with Anna Kim and Hee-Seung Yang) The Journal of Women and Economics 22, no. 1 (2025): 1–37 (in Korean).

• Parenting Styles and Long-term Impact on Human Capital Accumulation and Subjective Well-being: Evidence from South Korea. (with Yongmi Kim and WooRam Park) The Journal of Women and Economics 21, no. 4 (2025): 37-62.

• Early-life Exposure to Cold Shocks and Child Growth: Evidence from Tanzania (with Josephat Hongoli), Health Economics, 32(12), pp.2855-2879 (2023)

• Explaining Variations in Long-term Care Use and Expenditures under the Public Long-Term Care Insurance Systems in Japan and Korea (with Hongsoo Kim, Nan-he Yoon, and Hideki Hashimoto) International Journal of Health Policy and Management 12 (2022): 6640.

• The Motherhood Effect on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from South Korea (with Anna Kim) Asian‐Pacific Economic Literature, 36(2), (2022), pp.71-88. 

- This paper is an updated version of KLI Working Paper (2021), which documents the child penalty in South Korea.

• Industry Variations in Health Plans and Dynamic Employment Substitution (with Hee-Seung Yang and Myungkyu Shim), Journal of Labor Research, 42 (2021): 449-467. [PDF]

• Endowment Effects in Proposal Right Contests (with Chulyoung Kim and Sang-Hyun Kim) [PDF], Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

• Does education play a role in explaining the rural-urban wealth gap? Evidence from Tanzania (with Gabriel K. Mafie and Hee-Seung Yang), Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 2021 Dec 1;62(2):162-77.

• Work transitions, gender, and subjective well-being (with Hye Yoon Chung) Applied Research in Quality of Life 2021 Oct;16(5):2085-109 [Online]

• Household Inequality and Risk Sharing in Australia. (with Stephen Matteo Miller and Hee-Seung Yang) Global Economic Review 50.2 (2021): 169-191.  [Online]

• Determinants of the long-term care expenditures and institutional care utilization (with Hye Yoon Chung) The Korean Journal of Health Economics and Policy, 27, no. 2 (2021): 73-94 (in Korean)

• Friendship and Female Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladeshi Primary Schools. (with Asadul Islam, Eleonora Patacchini, and Yves Zenou) The Economic Journal 130, no. 627 (2020): 740-764.  [PDF]  [Online]

• The Long-Term Labor Market Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty at the Time of Graduation  (with Hye Yoon Chung and Seung Phil Lim) The Korean Journal of Economics, 26, no.2 (2019): 219-244 

• The Effectiveness of Single-sex Schools through Out-of- School Activities: Evidence from South Korea. (with Liang Choon Wang), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics  81, no. 2 (2019): 369-393. [Online]

• Does greater school autonomy make a difference? Evidence from a randomized natural experiment in South Korea (with Liang Choon Wang, and Hee-Seung Yang) Journal of Public Economics 161: 15-30 (2018). [Online]

    - mentioned in Marginal Revolution; Development Impact 

• Exploring the Impact of Opioid Use on the Costs of Recovery Following Orthopaedic Road Trauma (with Gemma Tiernan and Janneke Berecki-Gisolf), Accident Analysis and Prevention 117:  32-39 (2018) [Online]

• The effect of female education on marital matches and child health in Bangladesh. (with Kanti Nuzhat, and Hee-Seung Yang) Journal of Population Economics 31, no. 3 (2018): 915-936. [PDF] [Online]

• Education, Marriage and Fertility: Long-term Evidence from a Female Stipend Program in Bangladesh, (with Asadul Islam, Kanti Nuzhat, Russell Smyth, and Hee-Seung Yang) Economic Development and Cultural Change 66, no. 2 (January 2018): 383-415 [Online]

• Can testing improve student learning? An evaluation of the mathematics diagnostic testing project. (with Julian Betts and Andrew C. Zau) Journal of Urban Economics 100 (2017): 54-64. [Online]

- LSE USAPP blog

• Do Work Decisions among Young Adults Respond to Extended Dependent Coverage? (with Hee-Seung Yang) Industrial and Labor Relations Review (ILR Review), 69(3): 737-771 (2016). [Online]

• The Effect of Pre-existing Health Conditions on the Cost of Recovery from Road Traffic Injury: Insights from Data Linkage of Medicare and Compensable Injury Claims in Victoria, Australia” (with Behrooz Hassani-Mahmooei, Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, and Roderick J. McClure) BMC Health Services Research, 2016, 16:162. [Online]

• The Effect of Medicaid Physician Fees on Take-up of Public Health Insurance among Children in Poverty Journal of Health Economics 32(2):452-462 (2013) [Online]

         - Awarded Australasian Health Economics Society Research Prize

Publications in Korean Journals (Peer Reviewed Journal Articles)

• 김안나, 양희승, and 한유진. "급여형태별 성별 임금격차의 추세와 요인 분석." 여성경제연구 22, no. 1 (2025): 1-37.

• Hahn, Youjin, Yongmi Kim, and WooRam Park. "Parenting Styles and Long-term Impact on Human Capital Accumulation and Subjective Well-being: Evidence from South Korea." 여성경제연구 21, no. 4 (2025): 37-62.

• 정혜윤, 한유진. 노인장기요양보험의 지출과 장기요양시설 이용에 대한 결정요인 분석. 보건경제와 정책연구 (구 보건경제연구). 2021;27(2):73-94.

• Chung, Hye Yoon, Youjin Hahn, and Seung Phil Lim. "The Long-Term Labor Market Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty at the Time of Graduation." The Korean Journal of Economics Vol 26, no. 2 (2019).

Other publication (Peer reviewed)

• Does Diagnostic Math Testing Improve Student Learning? (with Julian Betts and Andrew C. Zau) San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California (2011).

        - In the news: The San Diego Union Tribune,  KPBS Public Radio (San Diego)

(Selected) Work in Progress

• School Principal Accountability and Student Achievements: Evidence from Open Recruitment System of Principals in Korea (with Yongmi Kim)

• Teams, Organization and Education Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh (with Asadul Islam, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou)

• Preschool attendance, test scores and school outcomes:  Evidence from Tanzania (with Josephat Hongoli)

• Vaccine Take-Up and Trust in Government (with Julie Kim)