at Williams College
Department of Economics
Williams College
Schapiro Hall Room 205
24 Hopkins Hall Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267
Yong.S.Lee@williams.edu
Personal Webpage
Education
M.A., Ph.D., Economics, Brown University, 2008, 2012
M.P.P., Public Policy, Duke University, 2007
B.S., M.S., Architecture, Seoul National University, 1999, 2001
Research Areas
Economic Development, Urban Economics, Education, and Health
Working Papers
Exams, Districts, and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from South Korea, March 2013, previously circulated as, “Educational Tracking, Residential Sorting, and Intergenerational Mobility”, Willams Economics Department Working Paper Series 2012-8.
Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery: Spending Your Donations (with Vernon Henderson), January 2013, older NBER Working Paper 17707.
[Media Coverage] : The Huffington Post
School Districting and the Origins of Residential Land Price Inequality, April 2013.
Staffing Subsidies and the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes (with Andrew Foster), May 2012.
Research in Progress
Long-run Impact of Gasoline Prices (with Nathaniel Baum-Snow)
Impact of Universal Healthcare on Health Utilization and Outcome in Indonesia (with Vernon Henderson)
Humanitarian Aid and Trade (with Will Olney)
Do Agents Respond to Hedonic Price Estimates? (with Yuya Sasaki)
Natural Disasters, Human Capital, and Urbanization
Small Business Loans and the Employment of Small and Large Establishments
Published Papers
Do Medicaid Wage Pass-through Payments Increase Nursing Home Staffing? (with Z. Feng, S. Kuo, O. Intrator, A. Foster, and V. Mor), Health Services Research, 45(3): 728-747.
Other Links
U.S.-Korea Scholar-Policymaker Nexus, Mansfield Foundation.
Humanitarian Assistance at the Crossroads, Global Health Initiative and the Watson Institute, Brown University.