Changhui Kang

Associate Professor

Department of Economics
Chung-Ang University

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION

             Phone : +82-2-820-5862
             Fax : +82-2-812-9718
             Email:
ckang@cau.ac.kr

             Citizenship: South Korea

             Address:
             Department of Economics
             Chung-Ang University
             221 Heukseok-Dong Dongjak-Gu
             Seoul 156-756, South Korea

 

2. EDUCATION:

             B.A. Business Administration, Seoul National University 1992
             M.A. Economics, Seoul National University 1995
             Ph.D. Economics, Cornell University, USA 2001

 

3. TEACHING AREAS

             Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Econometrics

 

4. RESEARCH INTERESTS

             Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Health Economics

 

5. ARTICLES IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

           ¡Ü ¡°Performance of Various Estimators for Censored Response Models with Endogenous Regressors,¡± Pacific Economic Review forthcoming,  with Myoung-Jae Lee

           ¡Ü ¡°Does Education Induce Healthy Lifestyle?,¡± Journal of Health Economics 27(6),  1516-1531, 2008,  with Cheolsung Park

           ¡Ü ¡°Classroom Peer Effects and Academic Achievement: Quasi-Randomization Evidence from South Korea,¡± Journal of Urban Economics 61(3), 458-495, 2007

           ¡Ü ¡°Academic Interactions among Classroom Peers: A Cross-Country Comparison Using TIMSS,¡± Applied Economics 39(12), 1531-1544, 2007

           ¡Ü  ¡°Effects of Ability Mixing in High School on Adulthood Earnings: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from South Korea,¡± Journal of Population Economics 20(2), 269-297, 2007, with Cheolsung Park and Myoung-Jae Lee

           ¡Ü ¡°Regional Ties and Discrimination: Political Change, Economic Crisis, and Job Displacements in Korea, 1997-1999,¡± The Developing Economies 45(1), 63-96, 2007, with Seungjoo Lee

           ¡Ü ¡°Identification for difference in differences with cross-section and panel data,¡± Economics Letters 92(2), 270-276, 2006, with Myoung-Jae Lee

 

6. ARTICLES IN KOREAN JOURNALS

           ¡Ü ¡°Who Gets Displaced and How Much Do They Lose After the Displacement?¡± Korean Journal of Labor Economics, The Korean Labour Economic Association, Vol. 23, Special Edition, Feb 2000 (in English)

           ¡Ü ¡°The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Unemployment," Guk Je Kyong Jae Yon Gu, Korea International Economic Association, 2000, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp.23-44 (with Sung-Joon Park)

           ¡Ü ¡°An Essay on the Peculiar Coexistence of Labor Shortage and Idle Labor Force in Korea,¡± Korean Journal of Labor Economics, The Korean Labour Economic Association, Vol. 19, No. 1, July 1996 (with Woo-Hyun Cho) (in Korean)

           ¡Ü ¡°Identification of the Target Group for Employment Policy,¡± Journal of Industrial Relations, The Korean Industrial Relations Research Association, Vol. 6, June 1996 (with Woo-Hyun Cho) (in Korean)

 

7. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

           ¡Ü  2008-Present, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Chung-Ang University

           ¡Ü  2001-2008, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore

 

8. WORKS IN PROGRESS

           ¡Ü ¡°An International Comparison of the Effect of Private Education Spending on Student Academic Performance: Evidence from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2006¡± (with Deockhyun Ryu), under submission

           ¡Ü ¡°Performance of Various Estimators for Binary Response Models with Endogenous Regressors¡± (with Myoung-jae Lee), under submission

           ¡Ü ¡°Family Size and Educational Investments in Children: Evidence from Private Tutoring Expenditures in South Korea,¡± under revision requested by Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
(A working-paper version can be downloaded here.)

           ¡Ü ¡°Educational Implications of School Systems at Different Stages of Schooling¡± (with Jung Hur), under submission

           ¡Ü ¡°School Systems and Efficiency and Equity of Education¡± (with Jung Hur), under submission

           ¡Ü ¡°Does Money Matter? The Effect of Private Tutoring Expenditures on Academic Performance: Evidence from a Nonparametric Bounding Method,¡± under submission

 

9. RECENT PRESENTATIONS

           ¡Ü ¡°Does Money Matter? The Effect of Private Tutoring Expenditures on Academic Performance: Evidence from a Nonparametric Bounding Method,¡± The 9th International Conference on Education Research, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. (October 27-28, 2008)

¡Ü ¡°School Systems and Efficiency and Equity of Education,¡± The 2007 Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (July 3-6, 2007)

           ¡Ü ¡°Does Money Matter? The Effect of Private Educational Expenditures on Academic Performance,¡± Public-Private Partnerships in Education, World Bank, Washington DC, USA (June7-8, 2007, by invitation); The 81st Annual Conference of Western Economic Association International, San Diego, USA