I am a health policy researcher and Senior Research Scientist at the Tech and Society Lab (led by Jonathan Haidt) at NYU Stern School of Business. My work examines how social and environmental factors shape mental and cognitive health across the life course, with research spanning digital technology, immigrant labor, Alzheimer's Disease, and long-term care. I apply econometric methods to test hypotheses informed by real-world insights and grounded in theories of various disciplines of social sciences. My work has been published in medical, health policy, gerontology, and economics journals, including Health Affairs, Social Science and Medicine, and The Gerontologist, and has been featured in media outlets such as The Times.
Previously, I was an associate policy researcher at RAND and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
• Ph.D. Public Policy and Management, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
• M.P.A. International Finance and Economic Policy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, NY
• M.A. Economics, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
• B.A. (summa cum laude) Economics / Cultural studies, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
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