New Publication

“Long-Term Health Impacts of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War on Young Ethiopian Adults” World Development Perspectives (With Yemareshet Hailu Demeke) LINK


Working Papers

  • “Impact of the US-China Trade War on Vietnam’s Labor Market” (With Pham Phuong Ngoc) DOI (Conditional acceptance at World Development)
  • “The Impact of the Tigray War on Child Education and Labor in Ethiopia” (With Yemareshet Hailu Demeke) DOI Revise & Resubmit at World Development
  • “The Impact of 300 THB Minimum Wage on School Dropout: Evidence from Thailand” (With Jariya Jiriyasin) (Under Review)
  • “Washed Away: The Impacts of Extreme Rainfall on Child Marriage in Bangladesh,” (with Hanol Lee and Eunbi Song) DOI
  • “Fishing in Troubled Water: The Impacts of the US-China Trade War on Vietnam’s Export and Firms,” (With Pham Phuong Ngoc) DOI

Labor/Applied Economics

  • “The Effect of Male Outmigration on Women’s Employment and Empowerment in Nepal” Migration Letters, 21(4), 1503-1512, 2024 (with Chandan Sapkota) DOI
  • “Legal Entitlement and Bargaining Power of Marriage Immigrants in Korea,” Feminist Economics, 26(3), 90-118, 2020 (with Hanol Lee) DOI
  • “Wage Structure and Gender Earnings Differentials in China and India,” World Development, vol.97, issue C, 313-329, 2017 (with Jong-Wha Lee) DOI
  • “Return to Education and Skills in the Labor Market: Evidence from Japan and Korea,” Asian Economic Policy Review, vol. 12, No. 1, 2017 (with Jong-Wha Lee)
  • “Technological Change, Skill Demand, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Indonesia,” World Development, vol. 67, pp. 238-250, 2015 (with Jong-Wha Lee) DOI
  • “Between Calm and Passion: The Cooling-Off Period and Divorce Decisions in Korea,” Feminist Economics, vol. 21, No. 2, 187-214, 2015 (with Hyoungjong Kim) DOI

Empirical Trade

  • “The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Women’s Marriage and Fertility Decisions in Vietnam” 2024 Economic Analysis and Policy, vol. 82, 1071-1082 (With Pham Phuong Ngoc and Hanol Lee) DOI
  • “Importing Inequality: Trade Liberalization, Technology, and Women’s Employment” Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 59(3), 391-419, 2023 (with Yoko Oishi) DOI

Empirical Finance

  • “Gone with the Fire: Market reaction to cryptocurrency exchange shutdown,” 2023, Heliyon, 9 e18231 (with Hanol Lee) LINK
  • “The Five Day Workweek System and Investor Inattention,” 2018, Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, vol. 25, Issue 4. (with Taewook Kim)