research - Soohyung (Soo) Lee

Soohyung (Soo) Lee [home]

Publications

College Major and Female Labor Supply (with Jihye Kam)

"Strategic, Policy and Social Innovation for a Post-Industrial Korea," edited by Joon Nak Choi, Yong Suk Lee, and Gi-Wook Shin, Routledge, Ch.6

Efficient Supply of Human Capital: Role of College Major (with Sungjin Cho and Jihye Kam)

Singapore Economic Review, 2018, 63(1), 1-25. (lead article)

Did the Great Recession Affect Sex Ratios at Birth for Groups with a Son Preference?(with Chiara Orsini)

Eonomics Letters, 2017, 154, 48-50.

cited in Quartz

Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration (with Daiji Kawaguchi)

Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55(2), 633-654. (lead article)

cited in Marginal Revolution

Effect of Online Dating on Marital Sorting

Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(6), 1120-1139.

this paper is based on, but with significant revision, the first chapter of my thesis

titled “Preferences and Choice Set Constraints in Marital Sorting.”

Carrot and Stick?: Impact of a Low-Stakes School Accountability Program on Student Achievement

(with Seokjin Woo, and Kyunghee Kim) online appendix

Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 195-199.

Propose with a Rose? Signaling in Internet Dating Markets (with Muriel Niederle)

Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(4), 731-755.

cited in Freakonomics, Slate, and Quartz

earlier version of this paper was circulated as NBER WP# 17340

Beauty Pays but Does Investment in Beauty?

IZA World of Labor, October 2015

Bonus Compensation and Productivity: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Plant-Level Data (with Natalie Chun)

Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2015, 43(1) 47-58.

Do Single-Sex Schools Make Girls More Competitive? (with Muriel Niederle and Namwook Kang)

Economics Letters, September 2014, 124(3), 474-477.

cited in Pacific Standard, the Week Magazine

Multiple Testing and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Re-evaluating the Effect of PROGRESA on School Enrollment

(with Azeem Shaikh)

Journal of Applied Econometrics, June/July 2014, 29(4), 612-626.

All for One? Family Size and Children's Educational Distribution Under Credit Constraints (with Jeanne Lafortune)

American Economic Review, P&P, May 2014, 104(5), 365-369.

Overeducation in the Korean Labor Market: Evidence from Young Workers (with Sungjin Cho)

Journal of Economic Research, May 2014, 19-41.

Can the Job Market for Economists be Improved?

(with Fedor Iskhakov, Terence Johnson, David McArthur, John Rust, and Joel Watson)

edited by Zvika Neeman, Alvin Roth, Nir Vulkan, the Oxford Handbook of Market Design (2013)

Education's Role in China's Structural Transformation (with Ben Malin)

Journal of Development Economics, March 2013, 148-166.

Plastic Surgery: Investment in Human Capital or Consumption? (with Keunkwan Ryu)

Journal of Human Capital, September 2012, 224-250.

cited in USA Today

Self-Control and Provision of Education Subsidies

Journal of Economic Research, May 2012, 61-76.

Working Papers

[contact me for latest versions]

College Admissions as Non-Price Competition (with Christopher Avery and Alvin Roth)

[version 2014, NBER WP# 20774]

All or Nothing? The Impact of Gender Composition on Effort and Academic Achievement

(with Lesley Turner, Seokjin Woo, and Kyunghee Kim)

[version 2014, NBER WP# 20722]

Impact of Economics Crisis on Fertility and Birth Outcomes (with Chiara Orsini)

Endogenous Market Formation: Theory and Evidence from the Student-College Matching in Chile

(with Ricardo Espinoza and Hector Lopez)

Does Collaboration Improve Female Representation in Academic Fields?

(with Ben Malin)