Working Papers

Neighborhood Impacts on STEM Major Choice (with Rohit Munshi and Brian Murphy)

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This paper is featured in the EdWorkingPapers Policy and Practice Series.

The Long Shadow of School Closures: Impacts on Students' Educational and Labor Market Outcomes, Forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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Recognized as One of the Five Best Education Research Studies of 2024 by Fordham Institute 

Media Coverage: EducationWeek, Texas Standard (NPR), Houston Chronicle

The Racial Gap in Friendships Among High-Achieving Students (with Weonhyeok Chung)

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Low Psychic Costs of Education for Women and the Gender Wage Gap, Revise and Resubmit at Economics of Education Review

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Publications

• "From Population Growth to Demographic Scarcity: Emerging Challenges to Global Primary Education Provision in the Twenty-first Century ", Population and Development Review, Volume 52, Issue 2, June 2026 (with Emily Hannum and Fan Wang)

Pre-doctoral Papers

• “The Relative Poorness of the Old Living Alone,” Korean Journal of Population Studies, Volume 41, Issue 3, October 2018

• “The Effect of the National Basic Living Security System in Korea on Labor Supply,” Master Thesis SNU, 2019