Jimyoung Kim, Korea University

Jinyoung Kim received the Kuznets Prize for his article "Sex selection and fertility in a dynamic model of conception and abortion", Journal of Population Economics (2005), 18, 041-067. This prize honors the best article published in the Journal of Population Economics during the period 2004-2006.

Biographical abstract

Jinyoung Kim is Associate Professor of Economics, Korea University, in Seoul, Korea. He is also a research associate of the Center of Excellence on Human Capital, Technology Transfer, and Economic Growth and Development, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received a B.A. in economics from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1994 for his dissertation "Knowledge Creation, Human Capital Investment and Economic Growth" under the guidance of Professor Gary Becker. He previously taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo for 10 years. His research interests include human capital, labor mobility, technological innovation and intellectual property rights, income inequality, and economic growth. His publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Dynamics.

Previous Prize winners

The Kuznets Prize has previously been awarded to:

James R. Walker (University of Wisconsin-Madison), for his article "The effect of public policies on recent Swedish fertility behavior", Journal of Population Economics, 8, 223-251.

David C. Ribar (The George Washington University), for his article "The socioeconomic consequences of young women's childbearing: Reconciling disparate evidence", Journal of Population Economics 12: 547-565.

Olympia Bover (Bank of Spain) and Manuel Arellano (CEMFI), for their article "Learning about migration decisions from the migrants: Using complementary datasets to model intra-regional migrations in Spain", Journal of Population Economics 15:357-380.