(* indicate the paper derived from supervised student's dissertation/thesis and supervised student(s) are indicated with bold and blue font)

Working Papers:

1.  A spending booster chat for consumers: How and for whom does chatbot work?, (With M. Kim, S. Kim and S. Lee), Under Review.

2.  Revisiting Trade Diversion: Insights on the Persisting Effects of FTAs in an Era of Global Integration and Value Chains*, (With H. Song), Under Review.

3. Physical Abuse and Academic Achievement: Does Gender Matter?, (With J. Lee and S. Seo), Under Review.

4.  Strategic Division of Labor: AI Agents for Noncompliant Customers*, (With J. Hong, Y. Chen, and M. Kim), R&R at Production and Operations Management.

5. Do Maltreated Children Think of Suicide More? Evidence from South Korea*, (With E. Tuzel and K. Tang), R&R at  Economics & Human Biology.

6. The Impact of Depression on Mothers' Parenting Ability: Evidence from Quasi-Experimental Analysis, (With Y. Shin and K. Tang), Under Review.

7. Trade Agreements, Institutional Quality, and Export Growth Dynamics: Evidence from Chinese Firms*, (E. Yang and A. Oh), Under Review. 

8. Impact of in-person class cancellations on student outcomes in edutech-supported self-learning: A natural experiment from South Korea, (With D. Jung & M. Kim).

9. Densities of Attributes for Compliers and Noncompliers, (With D. Jung & D. Kim)

10. High-Risk AI System for Business? Investigating the Passive Pathway of Stereotype Threat in AI-Human Interaction*, (With D. Jung, M. Kim and S. Yun)

11. Market Liberalization and Firm-Level Adaptation: Intra-Firm Reallocation and Quality Upgrading in Chinese Exports*, (With W. Ouyang).

12. How Renewable-Energy Policy Shapes Trade: Evidence from China’s 2006 Law*, (With W. Ouyang).

Accepted Papers:

Labor/Education

1. Impact of Retirement and Re-employment on Health of Older Adults, (With J. Lee), Review of Economics of the Household,  Accepted/In Press.

2. Satisfying national and individual interests: impact evaluation of the KOICA master’s degree scholarship program. (With K. Kang and J. Kim), 13 (1), Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, p.10-38, 2025. 

3. Impact of retirement and re-employment on the life satisfaction of older adults in Korea. (With J. Lee), Japanese Economic Review, Vol 75, December 2024.

4. Attending a School with Heterogeneous Peers: The Effects of School Detracking and Its Attenuation. (J. Lee), Economics of Education Review, Vol 94, June 2023.

5. Can Older Workers Stay Productive? The Role of ICT Skills and Training (With J. Lee and E. Song), Journal of Asian Economics, Vol 79, April 2022.

6. Aging Labor, ICT Capital and Productivity in Japan and Korea* (With J. Lee and E. Song), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol 58, 2020.

7. Class Attendance and Learning Outcome, (With C. Sherwood and K. Tang), Empirical Economics, Vol 57(1), Pages 177–203, 2019.

8. Why Are Single-Sex Schools Successful? (with C. Dustmann and H. Ku), Labour Economics, Vol 54, Pages 79-99, 2018. Vox column

9. New Insights into an Old Problem – Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes in an Introductory Statistics Course, (With C. Sherwood), Applied Economics, Vol 49, pages 5698-5708, 2017.

10. Assessing the Impact of Blended Learning on Student Performance, (with F. Menezes and C. Sherwood), Economic Record, vol. 91(292), pages 91-106, 2015.

Health

11. Does a child’s early schooling affect mother’s mental well-being? Evidence from Australia*. (With Y. Shin), Review of Econonomics of the Household, Accepted/In Press.

12. Shared lives, shared stress: Witnessing and spillover effects in spousal mental health interactions (With Jung, D., Tang, K. K. and Yazbeck, M.), Vol 233, 106951, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025.

13. Spillover Effects of Retirement: Does Health Vulnerability Matter?*, (With D. Byrne, K. Tang, and M. Yazbeck), Vol 48, Economics & Human Biology, Jan 2023.

14. Poor Job Conditions Amplify Negative Mental Health Shocks, (With D. Jung, K. Tang, and M. Yazbeck), Labour Economics, Vol 79, December, 2022.

15. The Economic Impact of Patients' Health Information: Korean DUR Case*, (With D. Jung, H. Kim, and M. Kim), Applied Economics, Vol 52, pages 3555-3573, 2020.

International Trade

16. The Impact of Japan’s 2019 Export Restrictions on South Korea’s Semiconductor Imports: An Analysis of Direct and Spillover Effects*, (With H. Koo, & K. Shin), Vol 25 (5), 무역통상학회지, December 2025.

17. The European Green Deal’s Impact on Vehicle Trade: Evidence from Electric, Battery, and Fossil-Fuel Vehicle Imports*, (With K. Baek, & K. Shin), Vol 30 (4), 국제통상연구, December 2025.

18. How does Foreign Aid Enhance Developing Countries’ Export Varieties?: The Role of Human Capital and Institutional Qualities*, (With B. Han & K. Shin), Vol 28 (1), Journal of International Politics, Winter 2023.

19. 제품전환이 수출기업 생산성에 미치는 영향: 중국 제조업 수출기업을 중심으로 (With K. Shin), Vol 27(4), 국제통상연구, December 2022.

20. The Trade Effects of Tariffs and Non-Tariff Changes of Preferential Trade Agreements, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), Economic Modelling, Vol 70, pages 370-382, 2018.

21. Trade to Aid: EU’s Temporary Tariff Waivers for Flood-hit Pakistan, (With J. Cheong and H. Yuan), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 125, pages 70-88, 2017.

22. Can Intensive and Extensive Margins Help Explain Non-Decreasing Distant Effects Over Time?, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), Empirical Economics, Vol. 50(2), pages 253-278, 2016.

23. It Is Much Bigger Than What We Thought: New Estimate of Trade Diversion, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), The World Economy, Vol. 38(11), pages 1795-1808, 2015.

24. Can Preferential Trade Agreements Curtail Trade Creation and Prevent Trade Diversion?, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), Review of International Economics, Vol. 23(2), pages 221-238, 2015.

25. Heterogeneous Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements: How Does Partner Similarity Matter?, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), World Development, Vol. 66, pages 222-236, 2015.

26. The WTO puzzle, Multilateral Resistance Terms and Multicollinearity, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 21(13), pages 928-933, 2014.

Marketing

27. Home-Tutoring services Assisted with Technology: Investigating the Rolge of Artificial Intelligence Using a Randomized Field Experiment (With J. Kim, M. Kim, and S. Lee), Journal of Marketing Research, Vol 59(1), February, 2022.

Others

28. The impact of the innovation city project on the local economy: Evidence from Korean Innovation City Project from 2012 to 2014*, (With S. Seo), Journal of Asian Economics, Vol 99, Feb, 2024.

29. A role of β2-adrenoreceptor agonist related to the development of Parkinson’s disease. (With W. Lee, D. Jung, and M. Kim), Neurology India, 71(4):710-715, 2023.

30. The Robustness of Conditional Logit for Binary Response Panel Data Models with Serial Correlation (With R. Martin and J. Wooldridge), Journal of Econometric Methods, January, 2023. 

31. Participation in the Kaesong Industrial Complex and Its Impact on Productivity: South Korean Textile Firms’ Experiences*, (With S. Cho and H. Lee), Japan and the World Economy, Volume 53, 2020.

32. Learning by Example: Do the Biggest and Most Generous Donors Inspire Others to Give More Aid?*, (With A. Beech and K. Tang), International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 42(1) pages 19-32, 2015.