Publications 1.Human Capital in the Long Run (with Jong-Wha Lee), Journal of Development Economics, 122, 2016. 2. Effects of Educational Mismatch on Wages in the Korean Labor Market (with Jong-Wha Lee and Eunbi Song), Asian Economic Journal, 30(4), 2016. 3. Human Capital and Income Inequality (with Jong-Wha Lee), Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy,23(4), 2018. 4. Output Cost of Gender Discrimination in the Korean Labour Market, Pacific Economic Review, 24(5),2019. 5. Legal Entitlement and Empowerment of Marriage Immigrants in Korea (with Dainn Wie), Feminist Economics, 26(3), 2020. 6. Patterns and Determinants of Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Evidence Across Countries (with Jong-Wha Lee), Pacific Economic Review, 26(1), 2021. 7. What Drives the Performance of Chinese Urban and Rural Secondary Schools: A Machine Learning Approach using PISA 2018, Cities, 123, 2022. 8. Climate Change, Corruption, and Business Bribes in South Asia (with Toure Moumbark), Finance Research Letters, 47(Part B), 2022. 9. Peer Discrimination Toward Rural Migrant Students and Academic Performance in Urban China: A Machine Learning Approach (with Eunbi Song), Cities, 131, 2022. 10. Gone with the Fire: Market Reaction to Cryptocurrency Exchange Shutdown (with Dainn Wie), Heliyon, 9(7), 2023. 11. Educational Quality and Disparities in Income and Growth Across Countries (with Jong-Wha Lee), (with Jong-Wha Lee), Journal of Economic Growth, 29, 2024. 12. Trade Liberalization and Women’s Marriage and Fertility Decisions in Vietnam (with Phuong Ngoc Pham and Dainn Wie), Economic Analysis and Policy, 82, 2024. 13. Can Mandatory Local-Talent Hiring Policy Reduce Regional Starting Wage Gap? Causal Evidence from Korean Graduates (with Sungjae Oh), Economic Analysis and Policy, 84, 2024.
Working papers 1.Why East Asian Students Perform Better in Mathematics than Their Peers: An Investigation Using a Machine Learning Approach (with Jong-Wha Lee), major revision at Journal of Asian Economics, 2022. 2. Rural Migrant Concentration and Performance Inequality in Chinese Middle Schools: A Machine Learning Approach, minor revision at The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2022. 3. High School Reputation and College Admissions in Korea (with Sungjae Oh), under, review, 2023. 4. Washed Away: The Impacts of Extreme Rainfall on Child Marriage in Bangladesh (with Dainn Wie and Eunbi Song), under review, 2023. 5. Multidimensional Energy Poverty in China: A Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Socio-demographic Predictors and Non-linear Relationships (with Zhiqun Li and Shang Xie), 2024. 6. Explaining the Gender Differences in Mathematics Achievement (with Jong-Wha Lee), 2024. 7. Machine Learning Based Identification Strategy of Circumstances in the Analysis of Inequality of Opportunity (with Sungjae Oh), 2023. 8. Causal Discovery of Drivers of Crude Birth Rates in China (with Eunbi Song), 2023. 9. Chinese Super League and Neutralization of Club Names: An Event-study Approach, 2022. 11. Impact of School Accessibility on Girls’ Schooling: Evidence from the Sanitary Towels Program in Kenya (with Yuqing Wang), 2022. 12. The Belt and Road Initiative and Economic Development in Thailand: A Synthetic Control Method (with Abalou O. Eoulam), 2021. 13. Determinants of Differences in Economic Growth between CFA and Non-CFA franc using Countries of Africa (with Abalou O. Eoulam), 2021. 14. Empirical Analysis of Korean Female’s Educational Hypogamy (in Korean), 2013.
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