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Sunwoong Kim
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Sunwoong Kim is Professor of Economics and the Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
He also taught at Bryn Mawr College, University of Pennsylvania, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen (Germany), Ajou University (Korea), and KDI School of Public Policy and Management (Korea).
Originally from Korea, he obtained Ph.D. in Economics and Urban Planning from MIT in 1985.
He is a specialist in applied micro economics.
His current research interests include economics of education, urban and real estate economics, and labor economic.
Currently he works on several policy issues on Korean labor and education.
He has published articles in well known professional journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Housing Research, and Social Science Quarterly.
Currently he is the Co-Editor of International Economics Journal.
Selected Publications
Kim, S. and Ju-Ho Lee, "Changing Facets of Higher Education in Korea: Market Competition and the Role of the State," 2005, Higher Education, forthcoming
Kim, S., "Accountability and Governance in the U.S. Public School System in the U.S.," KEDI Journal of Education Policy, vol.
1, no. 1, pp.
61-83, 2004.
Lee, Ju-Ho, S. Kim, and Seung-Bo Kim, "Ranking and Competition among Korean Colleges and Universities," Economic Studies [Kyungjehak Yeonku], vol 51, no. 2, pp.
5-36. (in Korean)