Publications
Publications
Education and Wartime Mobilization: Evidence from Colonial Korea during World War II (with Yutaro Izumi) Explorations in Economic History, 98: 101712, 2025.
[Code and Data] [Online Appendix]
Technology Training, Buyer-Supplier Relationship, and Quality Upgrading in an Agricultural Supply Chain (with Zhaoneng Yuan and Hongsong Zhang) Review of Economics and Statistics, 107 (3): 711–727, 2025.
[AEA RCT Registry] [Online Appendix]
Media Coverage: J-PAL Policy Insights
The Economic Costs of Trade Sanctions: Evidence from North Korea (with Jihee Kim, Kyoochul Kim, and Chang Sun) Journal of International Economics, 145, 103813, 2023.
[Code and Data] [Online Appendix]
Paper awarded Korean Economy Research Award, Korean Economic Association, 2024
A Human-Machine Collaborative Approach Measures Economic Development Using Satellite Imagery (with Donghyun Ahn, Jeasurk Yang, Sungwon Han, Sungwon Park, Susang Lee, Hyunjoo Yang, Jihee Kim, and Meeyoung Cha) Nature Communications, 14, 6811, 2023.
[Code and Data] [Supplementary Materials]
Media Coverage: Phys.org KBS News (Korean) VOA (Korean)
The Effects of South Korean Protestantism on Human Capital and Female Empowerment, 1930-2010 (with Yutaro Izumi and Hyunjoo Yang) Journal of Comparative Economics, 51(2), June 2023, pp. 422-38.
Disaster Assessment Using Computer Vision And Satellite Imagery: Applications in Detecting Water-Related Building Damages (with Danu Kim, Jeongkyung Won, Eunji Lee, Kyungryul Park, Jihee Kim, Hyunjoo Yang, and Meeyoung Cha) Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, October 2022.
Socializing at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Manufacturing Workers American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(3), July 2019, pp. 424-55.
Media Coverage: AEA Chart of the Week World Bank Development Impact blog
Coeducation, Academic Performance and Subject Choice: Evidence from Quasi-Random Classroom Assignments Education Economics, 26(6) November 2018, pp. 574-92.
Examining the Exams: Intergenerational Mobility in Joseon Korea (with Rita Zihe Wang) Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Economic History
Civilian Killings and Long-Run Development: Evidence from the Korean War (with Yeonha Jung and Gedeon Lim) CESifo Working Paper No. 11974.
Building Bureaucracy Through Education: Evidence from Colonial Korea (with Yutaro Izumi)
The Impacts of Negative Income Tax on Labor Market and Health Outcomes: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment (with Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Minki Kim, Jungmin Lee, Seung-hun Lee, and Hankyoung Sung)
Media Coverage: Newsweek, The Korea Times
Generalizable Disaster Damage Assessment via Change Detection with Vision Foundation Model (with Kyeongjin Ahn, Sungwon Han, Sungwon Park, Jihee Kim, and Meeyoung Cha) Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 39(27), pp. 27784-27792, 2025.
Fine-Grained Socioeconomic Prediction from Satellite Images with Distributional Adjustment (Donghyun Ahn, Minhyuk Song, Seungeon Lee, Yubin Choi, Jihee Kim, Hyunjoo Yang and Meeyoung Cha) Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 3717-3721, 2023.
Learning economic indicators by aggregating multi-level geospatial information (with Sungwon Park, Sungwon Han, Donghyun Ahn, Jaeyeon Kim, Jeasurk Yang, Susang Lee, Seunghoon Hong, Jihee Kim, Hyunjoo Yang and Meeyoung Cha) Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 36(11), pp. 12053-12061, 2022.
Learning to Score Economic Development from Satellite Imagery (with Sungwon Han, Donghyun Ahn, Sungwon Park, Jeasurk Yang, Susang Lee, Hyunjoo Yang, Jihee Kim, and Meeyoung Cha) Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery SIGKDD 2020 Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), pp. 2970-79, 2020.