CURRICULUM VITAE

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

• 2022.9- Current, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Urban Public Health, University of Seoul

• 2016.8-2022.8, Research Fellow, Korea Institute of Public Finance

EDUCATION

• 2016 Ph.D. Economics, Rice University, Houston, TX 

• 2010 M.A. Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

• 2006 B.A. Economics, Yonsei University, Seoul, South  Korea

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RESEARCH PAPERS 

• Woohyeon Kim, Euna Han (2022). Antibiotic Prescription for Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infections: Understanding Patient and Physician Contributions via Patients' Migration, Social Science and Medicine, 314. 

• Woohyeon Kim, Heejo Koo, Hyejae Lee, Euna Han (2022). The Effects of Cost Containment and Price Policies on Pharmaceutical Expenditure in South Korea, International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(10), 2198-2207. 

• Woohyeon Kim (2021). The Detection of the Epidemic Phase of COVID-19 and the Timing of Social Distancing Policies in Korea, Public Health, 201, 89-97. 

• Woohyeon Kim, Stephen Wolff, Vivian Ho (2016). Measuring the Volume-Outcome Relation for Complex Hospital Surgery, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 14(4), 453-464. 

(in Korean) 

• Hyunjoo Lee, Woohyeon Kim (2025). Impact of Central and Local Government Subsidies on the Financial Performance of Regional Public Hospitals before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic, Korea Journal of Hospital Management, 30(1), 124-136. 

• Woohyeon Kim (2024). The Impact of Pharmacological Interventions on Health-Related Behaviors in Patients with Chronic Diseases, The Korean Journal of Health Economics and Policy, 30(4), 1-27.

• Jaiwon Lee, Woohyeon Kim (2022). Household Welfare Effects of Carbon Taxation,  Korean Energy Economic Review, 21(2), 33-74.

• Daehwan Kim, Woohyeon Kim (2022). Effect of Indemnity Medical Insurance on Demand for Non-Benefited Medical Care, The Journal of Risk Management, 33(2), 1-35. 

• Daehwan Kim, Woohyeon Kim (2022). Effects of Indemnity Medical Insurance on the Finances of National Health Insurance,  Journal of Financial Regulation and Supervision, 9(1), 49-83.

• Woohyeon Kim (2021). Healthcare Utilization Forecast using a Micro-simulation Approach, The Korean Journal of Health Economics and Policy, 27(3), 89-117. 

• Woohyeon Kim (2021). The Effect of Out-of-Pocket Cost Change on Healthcare Utilization for the Elderly Outpatients in Korea. The Korean Journal of Health Economics and Policy, 27(2), 95-120. 

WORK IN PROGRESS

• The Effects of DRG Payment on C-Section Utilization in Korea, with EunKyung Lee

• Cognitive Impairment and Labor Participation of the Elderly in Korea, with Junghwan Kim, Hyungsik Roger Moon

• The Effects of Expanding the Basic Old-Age Pension for the Elderly in Korea

• The Change in Out-of-Pocket Cost for the Elderly Outpatients and The Estimation of Price Elasticity of Demand

• Health Effects of Work Hour Reduction in South Korea: Evidence and Mechanism, with Moonjung Kim 

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS 

• 2023 The 80th Annual Meeting of the Japan Institute of Public Finance, Fukuoka, Japan, 2023

• 2019 International Health Economics Association Congress, Basel, Switzerland, 2019 - poster presentation

• 6th Biennial Conference, American Society of Health Economists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2016

• The South Economics Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2015

• 5th Biennial Conference, American Society of Health Economists, Los Angeles, California, 2014