Youngjoo Jung

Hello! I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am on the 2025-2026 Job Market.

My research focuses on improving financial access for small businesses in low- and middle-income countries. I primarily use randomized experiments.

Areas: Development Finance, Household Finance, Experimental, and Labor Economics

Email: yj27@illinois.edu

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News 

• I am honored to win the Louis Pasteur Prize for the best PhD student papers at the Advances with Field Experiments Conference hosted by the University of Chicago (Sep 2025). 

• I received an Honorable Mention Award at the Korea America Economic Association Job Market Conference (Nov 2025).

• I presented my job market paper at the AEA Annual Meeting ('Development Finance' session, Jan 2026).