Kisoo Kim
Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.
My research centers on the role of elections in holding elected representatives accountable in American politics. I apply econometric methods for causal inference to understand how elections affect representatives’ behavior, with a particular focus on U.S. House Representatives’ policy positions and legislative activities.
I am on the 2024-2025 academic job market.
Publication
Fowler, Anthony and Kisoo Kim. 2022. An Information-Based Explanation for Partisan Media Sorting. Journal of Theoretical Politics. Replication Data.
Winner of Ostrom Award in 2023 given to the best article published in the journal within the previous two calendar years (2021, 2022) by the Formal Theory Section of the American Political Science AssociationWorking Paper
Winner of Virginia Gray Graduate Student Research Award in 2024 from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science AssociationWork in Progress
Electoral Competition and Legislative Moderation (with Rohen Shah)
House Representatives' Responses to Challengers with Different Ideologies
Strategic Media Bias
Teaching
Instructor
Mathematical Methods for Social Science (Syllabus), 2022, 2021
Teaching Evaluations: 2022, 2021
Teaching Assistant
Statistics for Data Analysis II: Regressions (Master's, Head TA), Professors Dmitri Koustas, Yukiko Asai, Austin Wright, Winter 2025
Principles of Microeconomics and Public Policy II (Master's, Head TA), Professors Konstantin Sonin, Navin Kumar, Hyuk-soo Kwon, Winter 2025
Data and Programming for Public Policy (Master's, Head TA), Professor Nathan Barker, Spring 2024
Analytical Politics 2 (Master's, Head TA), Professors Luis Martinez, Zhaosong Ruan, Arduino Tomasi, Winter 2024
Game Theory (Ph.D.), Professor Konstantin Sonin, Fall 2023, 2022
Strategic Decision Making in Public Policy, Professor Konstantin Sonin Fall, 2023
Applied Econometrics, Professor Christopher Clapp, Fall 2023
Microeconomics 2 (Ph.D.), Professor Scott Ashworth, Winter 2022
Game Theory (Ph.D.), Professor Roger Myerson, Fall 2021
Formal Models of Domestic Politics (Ph.D.), Professor Scott Gehlbach, Winter 2020
Analytical Politics 1 (Master's, Head TA), Professors Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Wioletta Dziuda, Alexander Fouirnaies, Fall 2020
Mathematical Methods in Social Science (Ph.D. Math Camp), Summer 2020
Political Economy 2 (Ph.D.), Professor Peter Buisseret, Winter 2020
Political Economy 1 (Ph.D.), Professor Konstantin Sonin, Fall 2019
Data and Policy Summer Scholar Program, Professor Austin Wright, Summer, 2019
Math Camp for Incoming Master's Students, Summer 2019
Microeconomics for Public Policy (Undergraduate), Professor Sabina Shaikh, Spring, 2019