Hyunjae “Jay” KANG
Institute of Economic Research
Kyoto University
Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501 Japan

Employment
Sep 2023- Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Institute of Economic Research
Kyoto University

Education
Stony Brook University

Ph.D. in Economics

May 2023

Advisors: Steven Stern, Juan Pantano
Dongguk University

B.A. in Political Science

August 2016

Stony Brook University

B.A. in Economics

May 2016

Research Interests
Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Family Economics, Public Economics
Working Papers“Dynamic Competition in Parental Investment and Child’s Efforts”“The Relationship Between Spouses’ Wages Over Time” with Margaret Carroll and Steven Stern“School Closure and Educational Inequality: Parental Investment in the Pandemic” with Taeyoung Kangand Sunham Kim“Alternative Methods to Test for Positive Assortative Mating” with Steven Stern
Work in Progress“Compensation vs. Reinforcement: Experimental Identification of Parental Aversion to Inequality in Offspring” with Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Leonardo Bonilla, Matías Busso, Sebastián Galiani, Juan Muñoz, andJuan Pantano“Demand for Spousal Health” with Elena Capatina
Conferences Presentations and Invited Talks
2024

Osaka University*, Hitotsubashi University*, Korea Labor Institute, Stone Center at Universityof Chicago, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), University of Southampton,Toulouse Economics of Education Workshop, SEHO (Singapore), Kansai Labor Meeting, SOLE(Portland), KIER-CAPS Applied Micro, University of Tokyo, Sejong Applied Micro Seminar,Korea Labor Institute, Kyoto University

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Yokohama National University; AASLE (NTU); Korea University; Workshop on Families, Human Capital, and Inequality (Bad Dürkheim); IAAE (Oslo); University of New South Wales; Kyoto University; Australian National University; Missouri University of Science and Technology;
Korea Development Institute; Korea Institute for International Economic Policy; University ofGothenburg; Korea Labor Institute2022

SEA (Fort Lauderdale); KAEA Job Market Paper Conference (Virtual)

2021

GEPS (Suwon); CSES (Seoul; Virtual); DSE Summer School (Bonn);

2019

AASLE (NUS); SBU Game Theory (Stony Brook); WEAI International (San Francisco)

Teaching Experience• Main Instructor
Introduction to Structural Estimation (Graduate.: Spring 2024) Econometrics (Undergraduate.: Spring
2022, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Summer 2019, Spring 2019)• Teaching Assistant
Econometrics I (Graduate.: Fall 2017), Econometrics (Undergraduate.: Summer 2018, Spring 2018),
Introduction to Economics (Undergraduate.: Fall 2019, Spring 2017, Fall 2016)
GrantsResearch Grant, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research

2023

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientist, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

2024-2026

Scholarships and Awards
Award for Excellence in Research (Best Dissertation Award), Stony Brook University

2023

KAEA Best Job Market Paper Award†

2022

Best Paper Award*, GEPS Conference

2021

Best Paper Award*, CSES Conference

2021

Young Scientist Summer Program Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences

2018

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Stony Brook University

2016

Phi Beta Kappa, Stony Brook University

2016† For “Parental Investment, Child’s Efforts, and Intergenerational Mobility”*For “School Closure and Educational Inequality: Parental Investment in the Pandemic”
Computer Skills
Fortran, Matlab, R, STATA, Python, Julia, OpenMP, MPI
Languages
English (Fluent), Korean (Native)

Other Employment / National Service
Social Service Agent (Military Service in Korea)

Hankuk Kyungjin School, Korea

Oct 2020 - Jul 2022

Visiting Research Associate

IIASA, Austria

Sep 20182

Personal Information
Citizenship: South Korea
Email: jay.hj.kang[at]gmail.com; kang.hyunjae.3j[at]kyoto-u.ac.jp

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