* Financially supported by SSK, BK21, and KBER.

 Spring 2025

• March 12: Holger Sieg (U Penn) Policy Decentralization in the Post-Prohibition Era

• April 8 (9AM, SNU-UCSD webinar): Suk Joon Son (U Tokyo) Welfare Effects of Subsidizing Subway Rides for Older Adults 

• April 9: Youngwook Jung (KDI) Substitutability between Prime-Age and Marginal-Retirement-Age Workers

• April 30: Jungho Lee (Yonsei)

• May 28: Hyuk-soo Kwon (Chicago, Harris School)

* Seminars will be held in #405 at Woosuk Economics building on Wednesday from 4:30 to 5:45, unless otherwise announced.

Fall 2025

• September 10: Penny Goldberg (Yale)

• December 8: Nathan Nunn (UBC)

• December 17:  Dahyeon Jeong (World Bank)

Spring 2026

• May 6:  Michael B. Wong (HKU)

Fall 2024

• August 21 (10:30AM): Hanming Fang (U Penn) Housing Privatization as Intergenerational Redistribution

• September 11: Shoya Ishimaru (Hitotsubashi) What Do We Get from Two-Way Fixed Effects Regressions? Implications from Numerical Equivalence

• September 26 (Thursday 12pm): Kwan Ok Lee (NUS) Urban Green Spaces and Mental Health: Evidences from London, Singapore, and Hong Kong 

• Octorber 16: David Sungho Park (KDI School) The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households 

• October 22 (9AM, SNU-UCSD webinar): Jaedo Choi (Federal Reserve Board) Superstars or Supervillains? Large Firms in the South Korean Growth Miracle 

• October 30: Jongkwan Lee (Yonsei) Addressing Labor Shortages through Stable Stay for Foreign Guest Workers: Evidence from South Korea's New Visa System 

• November 6: Uta Schoenberg (HKU & UCL) Knowledge Spillovers, Competition, and Individual Careers

• November 13: Hitoshi Shigeoka (U Tokyo & Simon Fraser) Understanding the Barriers to Paternity Leave Taking: Evidence from Japan

• November 28 (Thursday): Victor Couture (UBC) Demographic Preferences and Income Segregation 

• December 4: Hyun-Soo Choi (KAIST) Nonbank Growth and Local Housing Booms

• December 16 (Monday): Jean Nahrae Lee (World Bank)

Spring 2024

• March 6: Seo-young Silvia Kim (Sogang) Support and Preferences for Grassroots Fundraising

• March 20: Euncheol Shin (KAIST) Strategic Sophistication and Collective Action: Theory and Evidence 

• March 27: Won Sung (BOK) Inventor Mobility and Value Creation in Mergers and Acquisitions 

• April 3: Jin Soo Han (KAIST) The Shale Boom and Green Innovation:Impact of Low Energy Prices on Corporate Patents 

• April 17: Donghyun Park (ADB) Exploring the Economic and Non-economic Determinants of Renewable Energy Investments: Developed versus Developing Countries 

• April 24: Changsu Ko (Korea Institute of Public Finance) Expansion of Cash Transfer for the Elder and Elderly Suicide Rates 

• May 7 (9AM, SNU-UCSD webinar): Eleanor Jawon Choi (Hanyang) The Effects of Exposure to a Large-Scale Recession on Higher Education and Early Labor Market Outcomes

• May 14 (Tuesday): Eungik (Eun) Lee (Indiana University) Earnings Shocks, Expectations, and Spending 

• May 22: Kei Kawai (U of Tokyo) A Field Experiment on Antitrust Compliance 

• May 29: Aigerim Yergabulova (Nazarbayev) Firm Employment Dynamics in Kazakhstan after Sudden Russian Immigration 

• June 5: Hae-young Hong (SNU) Estimating the Distribution of Elasticities of Medical Expenditures Using a Notch in Out-of-Pocket Cost 

• June 12: Naoki Aizawa (Wisconsin) Labor Unions and Social Insurance

Fall 2023

• March 20: Seung-Hyun Hong (UIUC) Voting with Your Mortgage: The Value of Democratic Governance (with Lu Han and John Hatfield)

• September 20: Jun Sung Kim (SKKU) Network Formation with Unobserved Homophily: Identification and Evidence from Bangladeshi

• October 4: Heepyhung Cho (Korea University) Explaining Variation in Quality of Life through Amenities: Evidence from Korean Cities

• October 19 (Thursday): Alden Cheng (NBER postdoc research associate) Why Are Minorities Disproportionately Concentrated in Low-Quality Nursing Homes? 

• October 25: Songman Kang (Hanyang University) Home Sharing, Crime, and Public Safety

• November 1: Minji Bang (City U of Hong Kong) Racial and Socio-Economic Gaps in Access and Exposure to Local News

• November 15: Jungmin Lee (SNU) Seoul Safety Income Project: Preliminary Results

• November 27 (SNU-UCSD webinar, 10:00-11:00): Minchul Yum (U of Southampton) Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea. Discussant: Minki Kim (U of Mannheim)

• November 29: Joshua Merfeld (KDI School) Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country

• December 6: Saiah Lee (UNIST) Central Bank Swap Lines and Currency Internationalization in Trade

• December 13: Ami Ko (Georgetown) Dynamic Pricing Regulation and Welfare in Insurance Markets

• December 22 (Friday, 3:30-5:00): Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) NOBEL PRIZE WINNER SPECIAL LECTURE

Humanizing Network Economics

Spring 2023

• • March 8: Chungeun Yoon (KDI School) What Determines Invention? Evidence from Ethnic Diversity of Patent Examiners

  • March 22: Jihee Kim (KAIST) Measuring the Economic Impact of Trade Sanctions: Evidence from North Korea

  • April 3 (Monday): John Gibson (Waikato, New Zealand) Mismeasurement in Empirical Political Economy: Sanctions Have More Impact than Implied by Popular Night Lights Data

  • April 13 (Thursday, 11:30-12:45): Steven Rivkin (U Illinois at Chicago) Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Teachers in Hard to Staff Schools

  • April 19:  Dae-Il Kim (SNU) Dynamic Labor supply with Investments in Child Quality 

  • April 25 (SNU-UCSD webinar, 9:00-10:00): Kei-Mu Yi (U Houston) Deindustrialization and Industry Polarization

  • April 26: Rong Fu (Waseda) In Utero Exposure to Radiation Fear and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident 

  • May 3: Naijia Guo (CUHK) Altruistic or Exchange Motive? Evidence on the Effect of Children's Health Shocks on Intra-household Resource Allocation in China (with Junsen Zhang)

  • May 10: Stefan Pichler (Groningen, Netherlands) Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects 

  • May 11 (Thursday, 11:30-12:45): You Suk Kim (Board of Governors) Bank Aggregator Exit, Nonbank Entry, and Credit Supply in the Mortgage Industry

  • May 17: Hyunseob Kim (Chicago Fed) The Labor Market Impact of Shareholder Power: Worker-Level Evidence

  • May 23 (SNU-UCSD webinar, 9:00-10:00): Hyuncheol Bryant Kim (HKUST) The Effect of Job Loss on Health

  • May 24: Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics) Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?

  • May 31: Jisung Park (U Penn) Labor Market Frictions and Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from Workplace Safety

Fall 2022

• • September 14: Joseph Han (KDI) Early Specialization in Higher Education and Labor Market Outcomes (with Chamna Yoon and Jae-Yun Lee)

  • September 28: David Weil (Brown) Land Quality (with J. Vernon Henderson and Adam Storeygard)

  • Oct 5 (16:30-17:45): Joana Naritomi (LSE) zoom Cash Transfers and Formal Labor Markets: Evidence from Brazil

  • Oct 11 (SNU-UCSD webinar, 9:00-10:00): Hyunjoo Yang (Sogang) zoom An Empirical Investigation of South Korean Economic History Using Spatial Data and Machine Learning

  • Oct 12: Daniel Trefler (U of Toronto) Looking Backward, Innovating Forward: A Theory of Competitive Cascades 

  • Oct 19: Youjin Hahn (Yonsei) Can STEM Learning Opportunities Reshape Gender Attitudes for Girls?: Field Evidence from Tanzania (with So Yoon Ahn and Semee Yoon)

  • Oct 26 (10:00-11:15): Seunghoon Lee (MIT) zoom

  • Nov 2: David Neumark (UC Davis) Help Really Wanted? The Impact of Age Stereotypes in Job Ads on Applications from Older Workers

  • Nov 3 (12:00-13:00): David Neumark [Special Lecture] What Can We Conclude from the Evidence on Minimum Wages and Employment?

  • November 8 (SNU-UCSD webinar, 9:00-10:00): Jongkwan Lee (Ewha) (with Giovanni Peri) zoom Do Low-Skilled Immigrants Improve Productivity and Worsen Local Amenities? Learning from Native Mobility Response in South Korea

  • Nov 16 (10:00-11:15): Boyoung Seo (Indiana) zoom Racial Differences in Retail Prices Paid (with Daniel Sacks and Andrew Butters)

  • Nov 30 (10:00-11:15): Ajin Lee (MSU) zoom How Does Medicated Managed Care Affect Provider Behavior? New Evidence from Spillovers on Private Health Care

  • Dec 13 (12:00-13:15): Steven Lehrer (Queen's University) 

Spring 2022

• • March 23 (10AM, zoom): Munseob Lee (UCSD) Government Purchases and Firm Growth

  • March 30 (4PM): Seung Hoon Lee (Yonsei) Community Banks and the Mitigation of the China Shock (with Sung Je Byun and Sanghoon Lee)

  • April 6 (4PM): Seik Kim (Korea U) Fertility Prediction using Micro Data (with Yoosik Shin)

  • April 12 (9AM, Tuesday, joint with SNU-UCSD joint webinar): Jihong Lee (SNU)  Who Innovates in Korea?

  • April 20 (4PM): Yeonha Jung (Sungkyunkwan) Agrarian Origins of Individualism and Collectivism (with Martin Fiszbein and Dietrich Vollrath)

  • April 27 (10AM, zoom): Dong Woo Hahm (Columbia) Prestige Concerns in College Application and Major Choice (with Yeon-Koo Che, Jinwoo Kim, Se-Jik Kim, Olivier Tercieux) 

  • May 3 (9AM, Tuesday, joint with SNU-UCSD joint webinar): Sangyoon Park (HKU)  The Economic Costs of Trade Sanctions: Evidence from North Korea

  • May 11: Terry Seokmin Moon (UBC) 

  • May 18 (10AM): Seonghoon Kim (SMU) Lecture on Health Economics

  • May 18: Hyunjoo Yang (Sogang) Using Maps and Machine Learning to Predict Regional Economic Proxies in South Korea, 1918-2020 

  • June 15: David Schoenherr (Princeton) Legal Uncertainty

  • June 23 (12PM): Jaehee Song (Colorado Boulder) The Effects of Residential Zoning in U.S. Housing Markets

  • June 29: Sun Kyoung Lee (Yale) When Cities Grow: Urban Planning and Segregation in the Prewar US

  • August 10: Yujung Hwang (Johns Hopkins) Structural Analysis of Xenophobia (with Huan Deng) zoom

• • Korea Empirical Applied Micro Conference in Jeju, July 10-12

Winter 2021

• • Graduate Student Workshop 1 (1/26)

    • Han Byul Lee

  • Graduate Student Workshop 1 (2/24)

    • Inkyung Yoo, Jiyoung Lee

Fall 2021

• • Sep 15: Hyuncheol Kim (HKUST) Learning Camp, Language of Instruction, and Education Outcomes

  • Sep 29: Kyungmin Kang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) Parental Income, College Enrollment, and College Completion

  • Oct 5 (Tuesday, joint with SNU-UCSD joint webinar): Munseob Lee (UCSD)  The Plant-Level View of an Industrial Policy: The Korean Heavy Industry Drive of 1973

  • Oct 14 (Thursday, joint with TS seminar): Seonghoon Kim (Singapore Management University) The Effect of Patient Cost-Sharing on Adolescents' Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from South Korea

  • Oct 20: Kyung Nok Chun (UC Irvine) What Do Right-To-Work Laws Do to Unions? Evidence from Six Recently Enacted RTW Laws

  • Oct 27: Albert Park (HKUST) Global Divergence in the De-routinization of Jobs

  • Nov 2 (Tuesday, joint with SNU-UCSD joint webinar): Terry S. Moon (UBC)  The Rise of a Network: Spillover of Political Patronage and Cronyism to the Private Sector

  • Nov 17: Junjian Yi (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Estimating an Equilibrium Model of Health Insurance and Healthcare Expense

  • Nov 23: Christopher Paik (NYU Abu Dhabi) Old World Trade Diasporas

  • Dec 1: William Lincoln (Claremont McKenna) Exporting and Firm Value

  • Dec 7 (Tuesday, 10:30-12:00):  Johanna Mollerstrom (George Mason University) Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality

• • Dec 17: Workshop on Economics of Education

    • Chulhee Lee (SNU) Parental Gender Norms and College Major Choice

    • Jungmin Lee (SNU) Two Tales of School Autonomy

    • Yoonsoo Park (Sookmyung Women's University) The Impact of Adult Education Voucher Program

    • Taehoon Kim (Kyunghee University) The Effects of Kindergarten-Entry Age, Age-at-Evaluation, and Schooling on Educational Achievement

    • Hwanwoong Lee (KIPF) The Effect of Releasing Teacher Performance Information to Schools: Teachers' Responses and Student Achievement

    • Eunhye Kwak (KLI) The Effect of Children's Education on Parenting: Evidence from U.S. States' School Entry Policies

    • Jinseong Park (Dong-A University) School Equalization Policy and Intergenerational Mobility

Spring 2021

• • March 31 & April 7: Graduate Proseminars

    • March 31, 4-6PM: 

      • 홍지은(박사), 이경호(석사), 이치호(박사)

    • April 7, 4-6PM:

      • 박지혜(박사), 이수진(석사), 정종우(박사)

  • April 7, 10AM Eunhee Lee (U Maryland) Trade, Jobs, and Worker Welfare (with Erhan Artuc and Paulo Bastos) 

  • April 14, 2PM Joseph Sabia (SDSU) Beyond the Draft: Modern Warfare, Veterans’ Benefits, and Labor Market Outcomes. 

  • April 22, 10AM (Thursday, joint with TS Kim seminar)  Jeffrey Clemens (UCSD) Why Do Labor Unions Advocate for Minimum Wage Increases? 

  • May 6, 10AM (Thursday, joint with TS Kim seminar)  Lance Lochner (UWO) Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill

  • May 12, 10AM Siha Lee (McMaster) Spousal Labor Supply, Caregiving, and the Value of Disability Insurance

  • May 26, 7PM Hyejin Ku (UCL) Competition and Career Advancement (with Julian Johnsen and Kjell G. Salvanes)

  • June 2, 2PM Kensuke Teshima (Hitotsubashi U) From Samurai to Skyscapers: How Historical Lot Fragmentation Shapes Tokyo

Winter 2020-21

• • Jan 27, 3:00-5:00 : SSK workshop. 안태현(서강대), 김미경(서울대 포닥)

  • Jan 29 (Friday) 3:00-4:30: Eunjee Kwon (PhD candidate from USC)

  • Feb 3, 3:00-5:00: SSK workshop . 김대일(서울대), 문성혁(서울대 포닥)

  • Feb 16-18: Young Scholar winter camp

Feb 16, 4 PM,  Jaerim Choi (U Hawaii) The US-China Trade War

Feb 17, 10 AM, So Yoon Ahn (U Illinois at Chicago) Marriage Matching and Intra-Household Allocation

Feb 18, 4 PM, Jay Euijung Lee (CREST) Gender Roles and Female Labor Market Engagement

• • Feb 24, 3:00-5:00: SSK workshop. 김정호(아주대), 이정민(서울대) 

Fall 2020

• • Sep 17 (Thursday): 오창현 (목포대학교 고고문화인류학과) 서울대 규장각 소장 충남 해미 어살(海美 漁箭) 문서 연구, online

  • Sep 24 (Thursday): Joshua Merfeld (KDI school) Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India. on/off hybrid

  • Oct 14, 3:00-4:30: Jinseong Park (Jinan U) Expenditure Cascades: Evidence from the Bush Administration Tax Reforms.  on/off hybrid

  • Oct 21: Kanghyok Koh (Korea U) Do COVID-19 Stimulus Payments Stimulate the Economy? Evidence from Card Transaction Data in South Korea (with Seonghoon Kim and Wonjun Lyou). on/off hybrid

  • Oct 27 (Tuesday, 9PM): Daniel Hamermesh (IZA), Adjusting to Loss: Widow Time (with Michał Myck and Monika Oczkowska). online

  • Nov 4: Jun Hyung Kim (Jinan U) Effect of Childhood Peers on Personality Traits (with Shuaizhang Feng and Zhe Yang). on/off hybrid

  • Nov 11, 3:00-4:30: Hee-Seung Yang (Yonsei) The Rise of Low-Skill Service Employment: The Role of Dual-Income Households  (with Jongkwan Lee and Myungkyu Shim) on/off hybrid

  • Nov 18: 송경호, 이환웅 (조세연구원) 지역화폐의 도입이 지역경제에 미친 영향. on/off hybrid

  • Nov 25: Sangyoon Park (U Hong Kong) online

  • Nov 27 (Friday, 3:00-6:00) SSK workshop: 4 presentations by Changkeun Lee (KDI school), Seonghoon Kim (SMU), Jungho Kim (Ajou U), Daeil Kim (SNU). 

Fall 2018

• • Sep 6 (Thu, joint with TS Kim seminar) Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi) Management Practice meets Human Resource Management

  • Sep 12 (Wed) Yong Suk Lee (Stanford) Do University Entrepreneurship Programs Promote Entrepreneurship? 

  • Sep 20 (Thu, joint with TS Kim seminar) Jongkwan Lee (KDI) Do Immigrants Crowd Out Natives from Their Residential Neighborhoods?: Evidence from Seoul 

  • Oct 17 (Wed) PROSEMINAR

  • Nov 7 (Wed) Hailey Hayeon Joo (Sogang) The Effect of the Diffusion of Online Shopping on the Retail Employment in Korea

  • Nov 21 (Wed) Sun Go (Chung-Ang) Ethnic Diversity and the Provision of Local Public Goods: Evidence from U.S. History

  • Nov 28 (Wed) Jawon Choi (Hanyang) Evaluating a Structural Model of Labor Supply and Welfare Participation: Evidence from State Welfare Reform Experiments

• • Dec 12 (Wed) 16-349

14:00-15:45: Uta Schoenberg (UCL), Like Mother, Like Daughter? Societal Determinants of Maternal Labour Supply: Evidence from the German Reunification

16:15-18:00: Richard Blundell (UCL), Nonlinear Persistence and Partial Insurance: Exploring the Link between Consumption and Income Dynamics

• • Dec 13-15 Asian-Australasian Society of Labour Economists 2nd Conference at Seoul Dragon City

H-Trio 2018 Summer Boot Camp: 실전 계량경제학 Practical Econometrics

"데이터의 정글 속에서 경제학 이론으로 살아남기"

Surviving with Economic Theory in the Jungle of Data

2018년 7월 26일-27일

M-J Lee (Korea University) Difference in Differences

Sokbae Simon Lee (Columbia University) Identification in Microeconometrics

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Applied Microeconomics Summer Workshop

일시:  2018년 6월 14일(목) 12:00 – 17:20 

장소:  서울대학교 아시아연구소 512호

주최:  서울대학교 경제연구소 분배정의연구센터 / 한국연구재단(NRF-2016S1A3A292494)

발표자 외 Participants: 김현철(Cornell), 황지수(외대), 손혜림(시립대), 양현주(인천대), 김영일(서강대), 이나영(Cincinnati), 강성만(한양대)

1:20 – 2:00 pm  주하연 (서강대)

Reviving Small-Scale Reservations: Evidence from the Korean Ready-Mixed Concrete Industry

2:00 – 2:40 pm  홍석철 (서울대)

The Allocation of Time after Psychological Shock: Evidence from the Sewol Ferry Disaster

2:40 – 3:00 pm  Tea Break

3:00 – 3:40 pm  이정민 (서울대) 

우리나라 근로장려세제의 노동공급 효과

3:40 – 4:20 pm  Christopher Paik (NYU-Abu Dhabi)

Mandala Matters: Former Tributary States and Modern Civil Conflict in Thailand

4:20 – 4:40 pm  Tea Break

4:40 – 5:20 pm  이철희 (서울대)

Nutrition, Health, Human Capital Development: Evidence from South Korea, 1946-1977

Spring 2018

• • 3월 14일 (수) 박우람 (KDI) Minimum Wage Introduction, Employer Response, and Labor Productivity of Firms: Evidence from South Korea 

  • 4월 4일 (수) 박이택 (고려대) 1970년대 이후 임금불평등의 장기변화

  • 4월 11일 (수, 4:00-6:00) PROSEMINAR: 고원식, 권현진, 서민진, 유인경, 윤양근, 정원혁

  • 4월 18일 (수) 윤참나 (성균관대) Waiting for Affordable Housing 

  • 5월 9일 (수) 박윤수 (KDI) 기간제의 정규직 전환

  • 5월 16일 (수) 이영욱 (KDI) The Effect of Parental Leave Benefits on Mothers' Return to Work: Evidence from Korea

  • 5월 23일 (수, joint with 한국노동경제학회) 황수경 (통계청장) 통계 패러다임의 전환과 통계청 데이터의 활용 

  • 5월 24일 (목, joint with TS seminar) Lorenz Goette (University of Bonn) 

  • 5월 30일 (수) Chinhui Juhn (University of Houston) Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap

Fall 2017

• • 9월 14일 (목, joint with TS seminar) Donald Kenkel (Cornell U) Mostly Harmless Regulation: Electronic Cigarettes, Public Policy and Consumer Welfare

  • 9월 27일 (수) 김태훈 (세종대) What Happens to the Wage Structure when Nearly Everyone Has a College Degree? The Case of Korea

  • 10월 18일 (수) 김두얼 (명지대) 북한의 철도 건설, 1900-2015: 산업화와 장기 경제 침체에 대한 함의

  • 10월 27일 (금) SNU Research in Economics (SURE) Conference: Yukiko Asai (U Tokyo), Takao Kato (Colgate), Ken Yamada (Kyoto)

  • 11월 1일 (수, 4:00-6:00) PROSEMINAR: 권현진, 유근식, 장광남, Gozde Gozlet (이상 박사과정); 박금비, 유정현 (이상 석사과정)

  • 11월 8일 (수) 한요셉 (KDI) Multidimensional Learning, Job Mobility, and Earnings Dynamics

  • 11월 15일 (수) 장신철 (일자리위원회 지원단 부단장)

  • 11월 16일 (목, joint with TS seminar) Shintaro Yamaguchi (U Tokyo) How Does Early Childcare Enrollment Affect Children, Parents, and Their Interactions?

  • 11월 23일 (목, 3:00-4:30) Nathan Lane (MIT) Manufacturing Revolution: Industrial Policy and Networks in South Korea 

  • 11월 29일 (수) 손호성 (중앙대) The Effect of Age at First Marriage on Female Fertility: Evidence from Korea's School Entry Policy Using Exact Date of Birth 

  • 12월 18-19일 SJE International Symposium