I love cities!

Working Papers

• The Unintended Consequences of Post-Disaster Policies for Spatial Sorting (with Marcel Henkel and Pierre Magontier)
  - 3rd round revision invited, Journal of Political Economy. New draft available!! (Mar/26)
  - Mentioned: Freakonomics, VoXEU

• Scaling of Small-Area Fair Market Rents: Evidence on Neighborhood Choices of Voucher Recipients Under Review (Sep/25) (with Michael Eriksen and Guoyang Yang)

• High-Speed Rail and the Gender Employment Gap: Evidence from South Korea New draft available!! (Mar/26) (with Narae Lee)
  - Hoyt Dissertation Award (Honorable mention); Lusk Center for Real Estate Research Award;

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• [4] Asian Immigrants, School Quality, and the U.S. Housing Market (with Amanda Ang and Siqi Zheng)
  Journal of Urban Economics, 2026.
  - Mentioned: MIT News, 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, 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

• [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

• The Geography of Intergenerational Poverty Revisited: How Mobility, Poverty, and Urbanicity Influence Life Outcomes 
  (with Gary Painter, Clemens Pilgram, and Shams Sadhin).
  - Invited Presentation: AREUEA National (2026)*
  
  

• E-Commerce Shock and the Reshaping of Commercial Real Estate: Evidence from South Korea
  (with Hyunbae Chun, Hailey Hayeon Joo, and Sangwon Lee).
  - Invited Presentation: AREUEA/ASSA (2027)*, Hoyt Weimer Winter School (2026)

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)