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 Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research at the University of St. Gallen and a research affiliate at GLO. My advisor is Professor Beatrix Eugster. I visited the CLEAN Unit at Bocconi University during the Spring semester of 2026, hosted by Professor Diogo Britto.

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 learn about marginal treatment effects of continuous estimators.

I will be on the 2026/2027 job market. 

Email: samueljong.kang@unisg.ch

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