About Me

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), co-advised by Prof. Eliza Forsythe and Prof. Benjamin M. Marx. Here is my CV.

My primary research interests include:

I will be on the job market in the 2025-2026 academic year.

Educations

2020.09 - Present, Ph.D in Economics, UIUC.
2018.09 - 2020.02, M.A. in Economics, Korea University. (Advisor: Prof. Myoungjae Lee)
2014.03 - 2018.08, B.A. in Economics and Financial Engineering (Second Major), Korea University.

Single-sex schools and students’ Physical Health: Evidence from National Physical Test in South Korea (with Youngjoo Jung), Economics Letters, 2025
Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Claimant Experience Survey (with Eliza Forsythe) (Report prepared for the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES))

2024: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management(APPAM)
2024: Southern Economics Association (SEA) - Invited
2024: Midwest Economics Association (MEA)
2024: AMIE 2024
2023: CSWEP PhD Economics Students Mentoring Workshop in Health Economics and Health Policy

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

ECON 102: Microeconomic Principles
- Spring 2025
- Fall 2023: Awarded in the “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students”
ECON 534: Macroeconomic Theory II (PhD core course)
- Spring 2023: Awarded in the “List of Teachers Ranked as Outstanding by their Students”
- Spring 2022 (4.73/5): Awarded in the “List of Teachers Ranked as Outstanding by their Students”
ECON 531: Macroeconomic Theory I (PhD core course)
- Fall 2022 (4.46/5): Awarded in the “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students”
- Fall 2021 (4.63/5): Awarded in the “List of Teachers Ranked as Outstanding by their Students”

Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Treatment Effect and Program Evaluation Analysis (Graduate course) (Fall 2019)
- Taught basic GAUSS programming language for empirical analysis
- Graded data analysis assignments and exams
- Assisted in teaching graduate-level econometrics including Matching, RD, DiD
Econometric Analysis (Graduate course) (Fall 2019)
- Graded data analysis assignments and exams
Intermediate Econometrics (Fall 2019)
- Assisted in teaching econometrics course for ~60 students
- Topics included GLS, IVE, LDV, Censored Regression, Sample Selection, and Panel Data Analysis

2024.05 Robert E. Demarest Memorial Award, UIUC
2024.03 Travel Award, UIUC
2022.09 Excellence in Teaching Awards, EGSO, UIUC
2020.09 - 2021.05 Department Fellowship, UIUC
2018.09 - 2020.05 BK 21 Plus Scholarship, Ministry of Education, South Korea
2018.09 - 2019.09 Research Assistant Scholarship, Korea University
2014,2015,2016,2017 Semester High Honors, Korea University
2017.07 Veritas Program Scholarship, Korea University
2015.07 National Scholarship For Humanities And Social Sciences, Korea Student Aid Foundation