I love cities!

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. I am an urban and real estate economist studying the causes and consequences of mobility and how technological spatial shocks—such as housing policies, climate risk, e-commerce, immigration, transportation infrastructure, and remote work —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] (Feb/2026)
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Email: kwonee@ucmail.uc.edu

Working Papers

The Unintended Consequences of Post-Disaster Policies for Spatial Sorting (with Marcel Henkel and Pierre Magontier)
– 2nd round revision requested, Journal of Political Economy. New draft coming soon
Scaling 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

[6] The Impacts of Asian Immigrants on Neighborhoods and Housing Markets in the U.S. (with Amanda Ang and Siqi Zheng) Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Urban Economics. 2026
[5] “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.
[4] “Work from Home and Urban Structure” (with Matt Delventhal and Andrii Parkhomenko), Built Environment, 49(3), 2023: 503–524.
[3] “Migration, Labor Markets, and Housing,” in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (Springer Nature, ed. Klaus F. Zimmermann), 2023.
[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).
[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.

Work in Progress

Social Mobility When Growing Up in Rural or Urban Poverty
(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

“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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