Mimi Jeon [pdf download]
Ph.D. in Economics
Deputy Director
Director for Economic Analysis
Fair Trade Commission (The Republic of Korea)
Email: mimijeon@korea.kr
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/mimijeon/home
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, 2024
Advisor: Professor Kanghyock Koh
M.A. in Economics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, 2010
Graduation with Excellent Thesis Award
B.A. in Economics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, 2008
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Applied Microeconomics: Labor Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics
PUBLICATIONS
1. The Effect of Government Support on Venture Companies’ Management Performances (joint with Kanghyock Koh), Korean Journal of Public Finance, 2021
2. Short-term Mortality Impact of Public Pension Programs: Evidence from South Korea (joint with Seonghoon Kim, and Kanghyock Koh), Journal of Public Economics, 2025
3. Social Distancing under trategic Uncertainty: The Role of Strategic Sophistication in the COVID-19 Pandemic (joint with Euncheol Shin, Seonghoon Kim, and Kanghyock Koh), Accepted for Publication at Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2026
WORKING PAPERS
1. The Impact of the National Pension on Labor Supply and Health of the Elderly, under review
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant to Professor Kanghyock Koh, Korea University, 2020-2022
Research Assistant to Professor Hongsik Ahn, Ewha University, 2008-2009
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, Graduate School of Labor Studies, Korea University, 2021-2022
Statistical Methods for Labor Economists
Teaching Assistant, Korea University, 2019-2020
Statistics for Economists, 2019, 2020
Health Economics, 2020
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
In 2023: Midwest Economics Association Annual Meetings 2023 (OH), Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association Conference 2023 (Seoul), Asian & Australasian Society of Labour Economics 2023 (Taipei)
In 2024: 2024 Korea’s Allied Economic Associations Annual Meeting (Seoul)
SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
BK21 Plus Scholarship, 2018–2020
Academic Excellence Scholarship, 2006-2008
NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Korea Institute of Public Finance, Researcher, South Korea, 2010-2012
OTHERS
Programming: STATA, R, SAS, SQL, LaTeX
Languages: English (fluent), Korean (native), French (basic)