I am an applied econometrician with a focus on the economics of crime. I am currently in the 4th year of my PhD at the University of St. Gallen. My advisor is Professor Beatrix Eugster.

My research uses both administrative and self-collected data to study the role of community institutions in household and neighborhood criminal dynamics. I am also interested in studying how community institutions effect household formation decisions. My work also contributes to the development of causal inference methods in quasi-experimental settings, particularly on how design-based estimation can be used to improve instrumental variable estimators.

Email: samueljong.kang@unisg.ch

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