5 papers
Pseudo-Panel Event Studies: Econometric Foundations for Credible Applications
Dongwoo Kim
Event studies with panel data are widely used to estimate treatment effects. With repeated cross-sections, future treatment dates are unobserved for untreated individuals. Pseudo-p…
The Race for Elite Destinations: Education Competition and Low Fertility in Korea
Dongwoo Kim
South Korea has the world's lowest fertility and an intense education race. Families devote nine percent of lifetime income to education, mostly to private tutoring with near-zero…
Does the Gender Wage Gap Originate at Labor Market Entry? Evidence from South Korea
Dongwoo Kim
When in the lifecycle does a large gender wage gap emerge? South Korea has the largest aggregate gender pay gap (29%) in the OECD. Among recent college graduates the conditional ga…
Identification and Estimation of Semiparametric Multilayered Sample Selection Models
Dongwoo Kim
Many selection problems are multilayered: agents first decide whether to participate and then sort among ordered or unordered categories. This paper shows that the sorting layer ch…
Partial Identification of the Valuation Distribution in Sequential English Auctions
Dongwoo Kim, Kyoo il Kim, Pallavi Pal
This paper extends the incomplete model of Haile and Tamer (2003) from static English auctions to sequential English auctions. Because bidders may wait for future opportunities, th…