Research
Working papers
The Unintended Consequences of Post-Disaster Policies for Spatial Sorting (with Marcel Henkel and Pierre Magontier) Journal of Political Economy (Revise and Resubmit)
The Impacts of Asian Immigrants on School Performance and Local Housing Markets in the U.S. (with Amanda Ang and Siqi Zheng)
Unintended Pathways: The Impact of High-Speed Rail on Gender Equality in the Labor Market - Evidence from South Korea (with Narae Lee)
Homer Hoyt Doctoral Dissertation Award (2021); American Real Estate and Urban Economics Dissertation Award (2021-2022); Lusk Real Estate Center Research Grant; KSEA Best Poster Award
Selected Work in Progress
The Effect of Targeted Subsidies on the Location Choice of Housing Voucher Recipients: Evidence from the Small-Area Fair Market Rents
(w/ Mike Eriksen, Guoyang Yang) Draft Coming Soon!
Confidential housing voucher holders' data acquired from the U.S. Dep of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Zoning and the Density of Urban Development (with Matt Delventhal, Andrii Parkhomenko, and Jaehee Song)
Peer-reviewed Publication
The Rise of E-commerce and Generational Consumption Inequality: Evidence from COVID-19 in South Korea [pdf] (with Hyunbae Chun and Dongyun Yang), Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 104, 2024
JUE Insights: How Do Cities Change When We Work from Home? (with Matt Delventhal, Andrii Parkhomenko) , Journal of Urban Economics, 2022
Media: LA Times, Time magazine, The Conversation, USC Tommy Talks, USC News, Academic Times, Skift, Fast Company,
Learning with Differing-Ability Peers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in South Korea (with Seungwoo Chin), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2022
The Effect of Super Supermarket on the Entry and Exit of Retail Stores in Korea (with Hyunbae Chun), Korean Economic Review, 2016 (in Korean, Pre-doctoral)
Invited/Lightly Peer-reviewed Publication
Work from Home and Urban Structure (with Matt Delventhal, Andrii Parkhomenko), Built Environment, 49(3), 2023: 503-524
Migration, Labor Markets, and Housing, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (Springer), 2023 [pdf]
Non-academic Writings
Zoning and the Density of Urban Development (with Andrii Parkhomenko, Matthew J Delventhal), Pacific Southwest Region 9 UTC, 2020/8/31
cited: J.P Morgan (2023 Oct)
What Will Become of our Cities if Work-from-home Truly Becomes the New Normal? University of Barcelona, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona, IEB Report 2021/1. (Editor: Jordi Jore-Monseny, Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal)
Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study – User Guide: Physical and Anthropometric Measurement (with Peifeng Hu) CESR Reports, Report No. 2018-001, Jan 2018
What Happens when Affordable Housing Comes to my Back Yard: Evidence from Los Angeles (with Rashad Ahmed, Andreas Aristidou, and Matthew E. Kahn)