Employment

• Economist, Office of Economic Modeling and Policy Analysis, Bank of Korea, 2023 - present

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, Seoul National University, 2023
  • Dissertation: “Essays on Heterogeneous-agent Macroeconomics and Public Policies”
  • Committee: Jay H. Hong (Advisor), Yongsung Chang, Jungmin Lee, Sun-Bin Kim, ShinHyuck Kang
• M.A. in Economics, Seoul National University, 2017
• B.S. in Economics & Management, Handong University, 2015

Publications

• “The Effect of 1995 Tax Reform on Labor Supply in Korea,” Korean Journal of Labor Economics, 41(4):1-30, 2018. (in Korean)

Working Papers

• “The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Tax-benefit Link of Public Pensions” (Job Market Paper)
• “On the Distributional Effects of the EITC in Life-cycle General Equilibrium Economies”

Work in Progress

• “How much can the EITC replace the means-tested old-age support?”
• “Household Labor Supply and the Design of the EITC”
• “EITC and NIT: Role of General Equilibrium and Social Security”

Conference & Seminar Presentations

• 2024: Society of Economic Dynamics (SED) Winter Meeting, KAPF Fall Conference

• 2023: Bank of Korea, CEPR Eighth European Workshop on Household Finance, CEPAR International Conference 2023

• 2022: Korea University PhD Conference, SNU Macro Seminar, Korean Association of Public Finance (KAPF) Fall Conference, Korea-America Economic Association (KAEA) Job Market Conference, Korea Labor Institute, Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) Conference

• 2021: KEA Annual Meeting, SNU Brown Bag

• 2020: Seoul National University (SNU) Macro Seminar

• 2019: Korean Economic Associations (KEA) Annual Meeting

Grants, Honors & Awards

• Best Dissertation Award, College of Social Sciences, Seoul National University, 2023
• The Best Paper Award, Graduate Student Session of KAPF Fall Conference, 2023
• Best Job Market Paper Award, Korea-America Economic Association, 2022
• The Best Paper Award, Graduate Student Session of KEA Annual Meeting, 2021
• PhD Fellowship for Fundamental Academic Fields, 2018–2022
• Brain Korea 21 Plus Scholarship, 2018
• MA Fellowship for Fundamental Academic Fields, 2017
• National Research Fellowship for Humanities, Korea Student Aid Foundation, 2016

Computer Skills

• Computing: Fortran (with OpenMP), Matlab
• Econonmetrics: R, STATA

Languages

• Korean (native), Japanese (near-native), English (fluent)

Personal

• Citizenship of the Republic of Korea
• Sergeant, Republic of Korea Army, 2010–2012
• Lived in Japan for 10 years

References

• Professor Jay H. Hong (Advisor): jayhong[at]snu.ac.kr
• Professor Yongsung Chang: yongsung.chang[at]gmail.com
• Professor Jungmin Lee: jmlee90[at]snu.ac.kr