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My name is Eunjee Kwon (Korean: 권은지), and I am the West Shell Jr. Assistant Professor of Real Estate at the University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business, Department of Finance. I am an urban and real estate economist studying the causes and consequences of mobility and how technological spatial shocks shape how places evolve.
I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California (2021) and have worked with policy institutions including the World Bank, the City of Los Angeles, and HUD.
I love cities. I grew up in Seoul, and spent a year in Singapore before moving to the United States in 2015. I lived in Los Angeles for six years and completed a semester in Barcelona as a visiting scholar during my doctoral studies. I have also been a visiting scholar at MIT (Boston), Seoul National University (Seoul), and Sogang University, my undergraduate alma mater in Seoul.
Since 2021, I have been based in Cincinnati, Ohio—a city I’ve truly come to love!!
Link to [CV] (Mar/2026)
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Email: kwonee@ucmail.uc.edu
Working Papers
Working Papers
The Unintended Consequences of Post-Disaster Policies for Spatial Sorting (with Marcel Henkel and Pierre Magontier)
- 2nd round revision submitted, Journal of Political Economy. New draft available!! (Mar/26)
- Mentioned: Freakonomics, VoXEUScaling of Small-Area Fair Market Rents: Evidence on Neighborhood Choices of Voucher Recipients Under Review (Sep/25) (with Michael Eriksen and Guoyang Yang).
Unintended Pathways: The Impact of High-Speed Rail on Gender Differences in the Local Labor Market - Evidence from South Korea (Jul/24) (with Narae Lee).
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
[4] Asian Immigrants, School Quality, and the U.S. Housing Market (with Amanda Ang and Siqi Zheng)
Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Urban Economics. 2026
- Mentioned: MIT Center for Real Estate Insight[3] The Rise of E-commerce and Generational Consumption Inequality: Evidence from COVID-19 in South Korea (with Hyunbae Chun and Dongyun Yang)
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 104, 2024.[2] JUE: Insight – How Do Cities Change When We Work from Home? (with Matt Delventhal and Andrii Parkhomenko)
Journal of Urban Economics, 2022.
- Top 3 most-cited paper at the Journal of Urban Economics (2021–2023).
- Mentioned: The Conversation, Time, Skift, Fast Company, LA Times, IEB Report[1] The Effects of Schoolwide Tracking on Low and High Skill Students: Evidence from South Korea (with Seungwoo Chin)
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2022.
Invited & Peer-reviewed Contribution
Invited & Peer-reviewed Contribution
[2] “Work from Home and Urban Structure” (with Matt Delventhal and Andrii Parkhomenko), Built Environment, 49(3), 2023: 503–524.
[1] “Migration, Labor Markets, and Housing,” in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (Springer Nature, ed. Klaus F. Zimmermann), 2023.
(Selective) Work-in-Progress
(Selective) Work-in-Progress
The Geography of Intergenerational Poverty Revisited: How Mobility, Poverty, and Urbanicity Influence Life Outcomes
(with Gary Painter, Clemens Pilgram, and Shams Sadhin).E-Commerce Shock and the Reshaping of Commercial Real Estate: Evidence from South Korea
(with Hyunbae Chun, Hailey Hayeon Joo, and Sangwon Lee).
Pre-Doctoral Peer-Reviewed Publication in Korean
Pre-Doctoral Peer-Reviewed Publication in Korean
“The Effect of Super Supermarket on the Entry and Exit of Retail Stores in Korea” (with Hyunbae Chun), Korean Journal of Economic Studies, 64(3): 5–30, 2016. (In Korean)
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