Youngjoo Jung

Hello! I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Economics Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

I am a development economist passionate about empowering small businesses by improving financial access. My research primarily employs randomized experiments, with labor economics as my secondary field.

Areas: Development (entrepreneurship, finance, gender) and Labor Economics

Email: yj27@illinois.edu

I will be on the 2025-2026 Job Market.

• Job Market Paper

• Curriculum Vitae

• Research Statement

• Teaching Statement

News 

• I am honored to win the Louis Pasteur Prize for the best PhD student papers at the Advances with Field Experiments (September 2025). 

• I am invited to present my job market paper at EBRD, London at the  Research Conference on Accelerating Growth for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Economies (October 2025).