Harrison Yongjoon Youn

Harrison Yongjoon Youn

Ph.D. student in Economics

The Ohio State University

Biography

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I am a Ph.D. student in Economics at the Ohio State University (OSU).

Prior to joining OSU, I spent 2 years as a research associate at National University of Singapore (NUS), focusing on the economics of aging and measurement.

My research interests are labor economics and the intersection between family and population aging. I use causal inferences to answer my research questions.

My current research delves into how public transfers impact on private intergenerational transfers amidst rapid demographic shifts. I investigate the government’s role in family spillover and crowd-out effects, leveraging a staggered adoption design.

Recently, I published a paper examining the consistency of surveyed data across individuals and methods for consistent measurement.

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Interests
  • Labor Economics
  • Econometrics
  • Health and Family Economics
  • Economics of Population Aging
  • Measurement
Education
  • Ph.D., Economics, 2027 (expected)

    The Ohio State University

  • M.Sc., Economics, 2020

    Barcelona School of Economics

  • B.Sc., Economics and Finance, 2018

    University of Amsterdam

Publications

(2022). Assessing patterns and stability of ADL hierarchical scales for functional disability assessment. In The Gerontologist (Oxford University Press).

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