Working papers

Land Reform at the Parcel Level: A Spatial Reconstruction from a Korean Village, 1915–2019, with Jongryong Park (Academy of Korean Studies) 

Revisiting the fertility puzzle: A dynamic spatial equilibrium approach, with Costas Arkolakis, J. H. Kwak and J. Woo

Shadow of authoritarian patronage: Village leaders and elections in democratizing South Korea, with J. Y. Hong and S. Park

Gambling for Goals, with Costas Arkolakis (Yale), Spencer Y. Kwon (Brown), Dominic Russel (Harvard) and Claire Shi (Harvard) (download)

Using maps to predict economic activity, with Imryoung Jeong (University of Michigan) (download)

Land reform, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in South Korea, with Jongryong Park (Academy of Korean Studies) 

Teaching machines to measure economic activities from satellite images: Challenges and solutions, with Sungwon Han (KAIST), Donghyun Ahn (KAIST), Sungwon Park (KAIST), Jeasurk Yang (NUS), Susang Lee (KAIST), Jihee Kim (KAIST), Sangyoon Park (HKU) and Meeyoung Cha (KAIST & IBS) (download)

The effect of war on local collective action: Evidence from the Korean War

Did high speed trains promote local economic activities?: Evidence from the introduction of Korea Train Express, with Elliot Kang (U. of Michigan) and Kanghyock Koh  (Korea Univ.)

Village leadership and rural development in South Korea, with Taejong Kim (KDI School) and Sunjin Kim (KDI)