Korean Abstract: 이 연구는 코로나19 위기가 사회경제적 안정성 및 포용성에 미친 부정적 영향을 살펴보고, 그 대처에 필요한 정책적 대응 방향을 제시하는 것을 목표로 하였다. 이를 위해서 감염병의 퇴치의 역사적 경험을...

English Abstract A large scale of foreign assistance or aid has been provided from developed to developing countries throughout the second-half of the 20th century. However, only a few countries out of beneficiaries succeeded in economic development. This has provoked a controversy over on the...

In this paper, we investigate how civil service exams historically screened talent for bureaucrats and family lineages influenced their final appointments. We explore the Joseon Dynasty (1392 to 1897 CE) as an exemplary case that implemented the examinations for selection of bureacrats. The...

Using Union Army veterans' lifetime socioeconomic and health records, this essay finds a consistent and persistent hierarchy in survival rates and hazard ratios by urban size at and across three stages of life: birth, late adolescence, and death. This urban mortality penalty remains after...

We attempt to identify the population who are vulnerable to emotional shocks by exploiting an unprecedented series of celebrity suicides in South Korea during the last decade, including one of the most famous actresses, as well as a former president. Our conservative estimates show that for 5...