Research
Working papers
The Unintended Consequences of Post-Disaster Policies for Spatial Sorting (with Marcel Henkel and Pierre Magontier)
Journal of Political Economy (2nd Revision Requested) (Sep 2024)
Media Coverage: VoxEU, Freakonomics Radio,
Asian Migrants and the U.S. Housing Market (2009-2018) (with Amanda Ang and Siqi Zheng)
Journal of Urban Economics (Revision Requested) (Dec 2024)
Unintended Pathways: The Impact of High-Speed Rail on Gender Differences in the Local Labor Market-Evidence from South Korea (Job Market Paper)
(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
Horizontal Scaling of Small-Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMR): Effects on Housing Voucher Location Choices (w/ Mike Eriksen, Guoyang Yang)
[Slides] Draft upon Request
Confidential housing voucher holders' data from the U.S. Dep of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Social and Culture Award, by Office of Research University of Cincinnati (PI, $25,000) (2024-2026)
Peer-reviewed Academic Publication
[4] The Rise of E-commerce and Generational Consumption Inequality: Evidence from COVID-19 in South Korea [pdf] (w/ Hyunbae Chun and Dongyun Yang)
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 104, 2024
[3] Migration, Labor Markets, and Housing,
Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (Springer Nature, Editor Klaus F. Zimmermann), 2023 [pre-print pdf]
[2] JUE Insights: How Do Cities Change When We Work from Home? (w/ Matt Delventhal, Andrii Parkhomenko)
Journal of Urban Economics, 2022
Top 3 most cited papers in 2021–2023 at the Journal of Urban Economics. (Mentioned: JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact (Rosenthal, Strange 2024 November)
Media: LA Times, Time magazine, The Conversation, USC Tommy Talks, USC News, Academic Times, Skift, Fast Company (2021), Fast Company (2022)
[1] Learning with Differing-Ability Peers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in South Korea (w/ Seungwoo Chin),
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2022 [pre-print pdf]
Selected Work-in-Progress
Post-Fire Housing Market: Evidence from Listings Data (with Victoria Wang and Clemens Pilgram)
Impact of Online Shopping on Commercial Real Estate in South Korea (with Hyunbae Chun, Hailey Hayeon Joo, Sangwon Lee)
Pre-doctoral Peer-reviewed Publication
The Effect of Super Supermarket on the Entry and Exit of Retail Stores in Korea (w/ Hyunbae Chun),
Korean Economic Review, 2016 (in Korean, Pre-doctoral)
Non-academic Writings
Work from Home and Urban Structure (w/ Matt Delventhal, Andrii Parkhomenko)
Built Environment, 49(3), 2023: 503-524
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)