Current Faculty

• Research Area: Applied microeconomics, Economic history, Education policy, Big data
• Education: Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicage, 2015.
• Office: Room 561 Building #16
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• Website: https://sites.google.com/site/samilmyounghwang
• Email: hwangii@snu.ac.kr

Selected Publication

• Economic consequences of kinship: Evidence from U.S. bans on cousin marriage (with Arkadev Ghosh and Munir Squires), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2023) 138(4): 2559-2606.
• Health effects of cousin marriage: Evidence from U.S. genealogical records (with Deaglan Jakob and Munir Squires), American Economic Review: Insights (2025), vol. 7, No. 3.
• Monetary incentives on inter-caste marriages in India: Theory and evidence (with Ali Hortcasu and Divya Mathur), Journal of Development Economics (2019), 141.
• Links and legibility: Making sense of historical U.S. Census automated linking methods (with Arkadev Ghosh and Munir Squires), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2024), 42(2), 579–590.
• Linked samples and measurement error in historical U.S. census data (with Munir Squires), Explorations in Economic History (2024), vol. 93.