Publications

  1. “Education and wartime mobilization: Evidence from colonial Korea during WWII” with Sangyoon Park. Explorations in Economic History, 98, 101712 (2025)
  2. “Golfing CEOs” with Masayuki Yagasaki and Hitoshi Shigeoka. Labor Economics, 91 (2024)
  3. “Exemption and Work Environment” with Daiji Kawaguchi, Sachiko Kuroda, and Taiga Tsubota. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 64(4)478-519 (2025)
  4. “The effects of South Korean Protestantism on human capital and female empowerment, 1930–2010” with Sangyoon Park and Hyunjoo Yang. Journal of Comparative Economics, 51:2, 422-438 (2023)
  5. “Resource misallocation and aggregate productivity under progressive taxation” with Jang-Ting Guo and Yi-Chan Tsai. Journal of Macroeconomics, 60, 123-137 (2019)

Working Papers

  1. “Building Bureaucracy through Education: Evidence from Colonial Korea” with Sangyoon Park
  2. “CEO Gender Bias in the Formation of Firm-to-Firm Transactions” with Masayuki Yagasaki and Hitoshi Shigeoka. NBER Working Paper 31616
  3. “Building Business Resilience to Disasters: Evidence from Post-2011-Floods Thailand” with Hiroyuki Nakata, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Kunio Sekiguchi
  4. “Agrarian Contract and Peasant Protest: Evidence from Colonial Korea”
  5. “March from Markets: The Role of Periodic Markets in the March First Movement 1919”
  6. “Colonial Empire Building through Education: Rebellion and Education Provision in Colonial Korea”

Work in progress

  1. “Religion, Rebellion, and State Education: Evidence from Colonial Korea” with Sangyoon Park
  2. “Police Decentralization and Criminal Organizations: Evidence from Post-WWII Occupied Japan”