Eunjee Kwon

Urban and Real Estate Economist, University of Cincinnati

I am Eunjee Kwon (Korean: 권은지), an urban and real estate economist. I study how large economic, demographic, and policy shocks reshape where people live and how cities adjust, with recent work on natural disasters, remote work, immigrant settlement, and housing voucher policy.

I am the West Shell Jr. Assistant Professor of Real Estate in the Department of Finance at the University of Cincinnati's Carl H. Lindner College of Business. I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California in 2021 and have collaborated with policy institutions including the World Bank, the City of Los Angeles, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Born and raised in a suburb of Seoul, South Korea, I have since lived in Singapore, Barcelona, Los Angeles, and now Cincinnati, where I started my family.

Since 2025, I chair the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) Virtual Seminar Series.

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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)
3rd round revision invited, Journal of Political Economy. New draft available (Mar/26)
- Mentioned: Freakonomics, VoXEU

Race-Neutral Reform, Unequal Access: Small-Area Fair Market Rents and the Neighborhood Choices of Voucher Recipients (Sep/25) (with Michael Eriksen and Guoyang Yang)
- Society & Culture Research Advancement Grant (Office of Research, University of Cincinnati)
- New version of draft coming soon

High-Speed Rail and the Gender Employment Gap: Evidence from South Korea (with Narae Lee) (Mar/26)
- Hoyt Dissertation Award, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (Honorable Mention)
- USC 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 Contributions

[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.

Selected Work in Progress

From Walk-Ins to Log-Ins: Commercial Reshuffling and Retail Rent Decline
(with Hyunbae Chun, Hailey Hayeon Joo, and Sangwon Lee).
- Invited Presentations: AREUEA/ASSA (2027), Hoyt Weimer Winter School (2026), Seoul National University (2026), Urban Economics Association North American Meeting (2026)

The Geography of Intergenerational Poverty Revisited: How Mobility, Poverty, and Urbanicity Influence Life Outcomes
(with Gary Painter, Clemens Pilgram, and Shams Sadhin).
- Invited Presentations: AREUEA National (2026), Freddie Mac Rural Housing Symposium (2025)

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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