Contact Information:

Professor. Do Won Kwak (곽도원)

Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University (국제대학원, 고려대학교)

145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, South Korea 

Email: dwkwak@korea.ac.kr

Specialization: International Commerce (Empirical Economics & Policy Evaluation); 국제통상(실증경제학&정책분석)

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in Economics, Michigan State University, MI, USA, 2011.

(Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Unbalanced Panel Data Models -- Advisor: Jeffrey. M. Wooldridge).

B.A. in Economics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, 2000.

CURRENT POSITION:

Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University, 2023. March ~ current.

PAST POSITIONS:

Associate Dean & Chiar, College of International Studies, Korea University, 2022~2024.

Assistant and Associate professor, Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, 2017-2019.

Assistant professor (tenured in 2016), School of Economics, University of Queensland, 2011-2017.

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATIONS: Empirical Microeconomics (실증 미시경제 분야의 인과관계분석/정책분석)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Causal Inference;  Policy Evaluation; International Trade and Firm Performance; Labor Economics (인과관계추론, 정책분석, 국제무역, 노동경제학)

Publications By Subjects

Policy Evaluation (International Trade):

1. How does Foreign Aid Enhance Developing Countries’ Export Varieties?: The Role of Human Capital and Institutional Qualities (With B. Hahn and K. Shin), Vol 28(1), 국제관계연구, June 2023.

2. 제품전환이 수출기업 생산성에 미치는 영향: 중국 제조업 수출기업을 중심으로 (With K. Shin), Vol 27(4), 국제통상연구, December 2022.

3. The Trade Effects of Tariffs and Non-Tariff Changes of Preferential Trade Agreements, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), Economic Modelling, Vol 70, pages 370-382, 2018.

4. Trade to Aid: EU’s Temporary Tariff Waivers for Flood-hit Pakistan, (With J. Cheong and H. Yuan), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 125, pages 70-88, 2017.

5. Can Intensive and Extensive Margins Help Explain Non-Decreasing Distant Effects Over Time?, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), Empirical Economics, Vol. 50(2), pages 253-278, 2016.

6. It Is Much Bigger Than What We Thought: New Estimate of Trade Diversion, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), The World Economy, Vol. 38(11), pages 1795-1808, 2015.

7. Can Preferential Trade Agreements Curtail Trade Creation and Prevent Trade Diversion?, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), Review of International Economics, Vol. 23(2), pages 221-238, 2015.

8. Heterogeneous Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements: How Does Partner Similarity Matter?, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), World Development, Vol. 66, pages 222-236, 2015.

9. Learning by Example: Do the Biggest and Most Generous Donors Inspire Others to Give More Aid?, (With A. Beech and K. Tang), International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 42(1) pages 19-32, 2015.

10. The WTO puzzle, Multilateral Resistance Terms and Multicollinearity, (With J. Cheong and K. Tang), Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 21(13), pages 928-933, 2014.

Policy Evaluation (Education and Health):

1. Attending a School with Heterogeneous Peers: The Effects of School Detracking and Its Attenuation. (J. Lee), Vol 94, Economics of Education Review, June 2023.

2. Spillover Effects of Retirement: Does Health Vulnerability Matter? (With D. Byrne, K. Tang, and M. Yazbeck), Vol 48, Economics & Human Biology, Jan 2023.

3. Poor Job Conditions Amplify Negative Mental Health Shocks, (With D. Jung, K. Tang, and M. Yazbeck), Labour Economics, Vol 79, December, 2022.

4. Home-Tutoring services Assisted with Technology: Investigating the Rolge of Artificial Intelligence Using a Randomized Field Experiment (With J. Kim, M. Kim, and S. Lee), Journal of Marketing Research, Vol 59(1), February, 2022.

5. The Economic Impact of Patients' Health Information: Korean DUR Case, (With D. Jung, H. Kim, and M. Kim), Applied Economics, Vol 52, pages 3555-3573, 2020.

6. Class Attendance and Learning Outcome, (With C. Sherwood and K. Tang), Empirical Economics, Vol 57(1), Pages 177–203, 2019.

7. Why Are Single-Sex Schools Successful? (with C. Dustmann and H. Ku), Labour Economics, Vol 54, Pages 79-99, 2018. Vox column

8. New Insights into an Old Problem – Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes in an Introductory Statistics Course, (With C. Sherwood), Applied Economics, Vol 49, pages 5698-5708, 2017.

9. Assessing the Impact of Blended Learning on Student Performance, (with F. Menezes and C. Sherwood), Economic Record, vol. 91(292), pages 91-106, 2015.

Labor Economics (Role of Human Capital and Technology):

1. The impact of the innovation city project on the local economy: Evidence from Korean Innovation City Project from 2012 to 2014 (With S. Seo), Journal of Asian Economics, Vol 90, Feb 2024.
2. Can Older Workers Stay Productive? The Role of ICT Skills and Training (With J. Lee and E. Song), Journal of Asian Economics, Vol 79, April 2022.

3. Aging Labor, ICT Capital and Productivity in Japan and Korea (With J. Lee and E. Song), Journal of The Japanese and International Economies, Vol 58, 2020.

4. Participation in the Kaesong Industrial Complex and Its Impact on Productivity: South Korean Textile Firms’ Experiences", (With S. Cho and H. Lee), Japan and the World Economy, Volume 53, 2020.

Others:

1. A role of β2-adrenoreceptor agonist related to the development of Parkinson’s disease. (With W. Lee, D. Jung, and M. Kim), Neurology India, Vol 71(4), 2023.

2. The Robustness of Conditional Logit for Binary Response Panel Data Models with Serial Correlation (With R. Martin and J. Wooldridge), Journal of Econometric Methods, November, 2021.

Current Teaching at Korea University:

• Undergraduate: 경제학입문, 기술정보사회, 데이터사이언스입문
• Graduate: 정책분석, 고급조사방법론, 조사방법론2, 고급국제통상세미나

Past Teaching:

• Business Statistics 2, Micro-econometrics, International Trade, and Health Economics

Student Thesis Advising:

Most of my students performed policy evaluation or impact evaluation in her/his thesis. I had been mostly supervising development issues -- such as (micro-level) human capital accumulation through expenditure on education and health   

The followings are the topics of my former and current students: 

(1) The impact of "AI assistance to teacher" on student's academic performance

(2) The impact of "replacing Human Teacher with AI teacher" on student's academic performance

(4) The impact of "innovation city designation" on local economic outcomes

(5) The impact of "retirement of spouse" on mental health

(6) The impact of "foreign aid" on export product diversification