My research focuses on labor, health, and aging economics, employing causal inference to address research questions. I previously served as a research associate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) for two years, specializing in aging economics.

CV

Interests
  • Labor Economics
  • Health and Aging Economics
Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, 2027 (expected)

    The Ohio State University

  • M.Sc. in Economics, 2020

    Barcelona School of Economics

  • B.Sc. in Economics and Finance, 2018

    University of Amsterdam

Working Papers

(2024). Intergenerational Dilemma: Balancing Windfalls and Burdens of Public Transfers in Korea.

(2024). The Effect of Population Aging on Long Run Economic Growth of Developed Countries.

Publications

, Joelle Fong (2023). Assessing patterns and stability of ADL hierarchical scales for functional disability assessment. In The Gerontologist (Oxford University Press).

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Recent Posts

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Part II)
In Part I, Nietzsche’s approach to affirming life emerges as a weighty embrace of existence, one so profound that he dares us to imagine reliving our current lives in infinite repetition.
Dec 11, 2024 4 min read Personal Thoughts
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Part II)
The Unbearable Heaviness of Being (Part I)
From one perspective, human history can be viewed as a continuous struggle against the status quo–an unyielding refusal to be confined by the given conditions of reality. Were medieval religious truth still inviolable dogma, how would humanity ever have ventured into the cosmos?
Dec 10, 2024 4 min read Personal Thoughts
The Unbearable Heaviness of Being (Part I)
Strange Loops and Recursive Realities: Transforming Chaos into Clarity
This morning, I had an invigorating conversation with my old friend about the creative innovation behind Palantir’s Foundry Ontology. We were both impressed by its capacity to impose structure on the vast and often chaotic landscape of globally dispersed data—data that, in its raw form, appears lacking in intrinsic meaning.
Sep 29, 2024 5 min read Personal Thoughts
Strange Loops and Recursive Realities: Transforming Chaos into Clarity
The Power of Naming: How Language Shapes Identity and Meaning
The sentence “Harrison is a student” uses “Harrison” as a proper noun referring to a specific person, while “student” is a general term categorizing individuals engaged in academic pursuits. According to Aristotle, proper nouns denote first substances, while general terms refer to second substances.
Sep 22, 2024 9 min read Personal Thoughts
The Power of Naming: How Language Shapes Identity and Meaning
A Love of Two
In Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Hegel paints a vision of love in two distinct phases, each unfolding with a deep shift in how we relate to another. The first phase awakens when one comes to realize that the desire to be self-sufficient is no longer enough.
Sep 18, 2024 4 min read Personal Thoughts
A Love of Two
From Physics to Chemistry: Rethinking Modern Social Science Through Scientific Paradigms
Before the 18th century, Western scientific thought was firmly rooted in Aristotle’s theory of causality, most notably articulated in his works Physica and Metaphysica. Aristotle categorized causality into four distinct types: causa materialis (material cause), causa formalis (formal cause), causa efficiens (efficient cause), and causa finalis (final cause).
Sep 2, 2024 8 min read Personal Thoughts
From Physics to Chemistry: Rethinking Modern Social Science Through Scientific Paradigms
Elections and the Crisis of Representative Democracy
The German election of March 5, 1933, stands as a profound emblem of the crisis that can besiege representative democracy. This election, which should have epitomized democratic ideals by granting the people the power to choose their leaders, instead marked the demise of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazi regime-a regime that would irrevocably tarnish the 20th century with bloodshed.
Aug 31, 2024 5 min read Personal Thoughts
Elections and the Crisis of Representative Democracy
The Politics of Exclusion: Schmitt and Agamben Revisited
In 1927, Carl Schmitt’s book Der Begriff des Politischen (The Concept of the Political) reverberated through the German academic landscape, challenging conventional thought. Schmitt sought to legitimize dictatorial power by isolating “the political” as an autonomous domain.
Aug 24, 2024 4 min read Personal Thoughts
The Politics of Exclusion: Schmitt and Agamben Revisited
The Philosophical Parallels of Economics: Structural Models, Reduced-Form Approaches, and the Search for Truth
As I sat in my room reading Markus Gabriel’s Why the World Does Not Exist, which explores an ontological approach to harmonizing metaphysics and postmodern perspectives, I found myself drawing an unexpected parallel to the ongoing debate in economics between structural models and reduced-form approaches.
Aug 18, 2024 6 min read Personal Thoughts
The Philosophical Parallels of Economics: Structural Models, Reduced-Form Approaches, and the Search for Truth
Motivation to be an economist
About a decade ago, I embarked on a backpacking adventure through India, seeking adventure and cultural immersion. Little did I know, this journey would ignite a profound realization about the critical role economics plays in shaping our world.
Jul 13, 2022 2 min read Life Outside Economics
Motivation to be an economist

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