Publications

- Economics

• The effects of South Korean Protestantism on human capital and female empowerment, 1930–2010, 2023 (with Yutaro Izumi and Sangyoon Park)
  Journal of Comparative Economics, 51(2) (download)

• To move or not to move? The impact of immigration influx on natives' neighborhood choices in Seoul, Korea, 2022 (with Joseph Han, Jinwook Hur and Jongkwan Lee)
  Journal of Economic Geography, 22(4) (download)

• Social insurance in an aging population: Impacts of a government transfer program in South Korea, 2021 (with Kanghyock Koh)
  Economic Development and Cultural Change, 69(4) (download)

• Is there regional inequality in medical accessibility of the severely injured? Application of driving time data in South Korea, 2020 (with Elliot Kang, Min Gyung Kim, and Kanghyock Koh)
  Journal of Market Economy, 49(1) (download)

• Family clans and public goods: Evidence from the New Village Beautification Project in South Korea, 2019
  Journal of Development Economics, 136 (download)
  - 2019 Korean Economy Academic Research Award, the Korean Economic Association (2019 한국경제학회 한국경제학술상 수상)

- Political Science

• In strongman we trust: The political legacy of the New Village Movement in South Korea, 2023 (with Jean Hong and Sunkyoung Park)
  American Journal of Political Science, 67(4) (download)
  - 2023 Best Article Prize in the Study of Democracy & Autocracy, the American Political Science Association

- Multidisciplinary Sciences

• A human-machine collaborative approach measures economic development using satellite imagery, 2023 (with Donghyun Ahn, Jeasurk Yang, Sungwon Han, Sungwon Park, Susang Lee, Jihee Kim, Sangyoon Park, and Meeyoung Cha)
  Nature Communications (download)

• Disaster assessment using computer vision and satellite imagery: Applications in detecting water-related building damages, 2022 (with Danu Kim, Jeongkyung Won, Eunji Lee, Kyung Ryul Park, Jihee Kim, Sangyoon Park and Meeyoung Cha)
  Frontiers in Environmental Science (download)

- Hospitality and Tourism

• Effects of visual cues and social density on beverage consumption: A field experiment in a bar, 2022 (with Min Gyung Kim and Anna Mattila)
  Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 63(2) (download)

• Persistent effects of mega-events on local economies: An application of administrative big data, 2021 (with Min Gyung Kim)
  Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 26(12) (download)

• The impact of customer loyalty on restaurant sanitation grades and the importance of narrative information: The case of New York Restaurant Sanitation Grading System, 2018 (with Min Gyung Kim and Anna Mattila)
  Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 59(3) (download) 

- Computer Science Conference Proceedings

• Fine-Grained Socioeconomic Prediction from Satellite Images with Distributional Adjustment, 2023 (with Donghyun Ahn, Minhyuk Song, Seungeon Lee, Yubin Choi, Jihee Kim, Sangyoon Park, Meeyoung Cha)
  CIKM 2023: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (download)

• Learning economic indicators by aggregating multi-level geospatial information, 2022 (with Sungwon Park, Sungwon Han, Donghyun Ahn, Jaeyeon Kim,  Jeasurk Yang, Susang Lee, Seunghoon Hong, Jihee Kim, Sangyoon Park and Meeyoung Cha)
  AAAI 2022: Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2022 Conference (download)

• Learning to score economic development from satellite imagery, 2020 (with Sungwon Han, Donghyun Ahn, Sungwon Park, Jeasurk Yang, Susang Lee, Jihee Kim, Sangyoon Park and Meeyoung Cha)
  KDD 2020: Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGKDD 2020 Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (download)