Younghwan Song

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

Union College

Schenectady, NY 12308

 

Office: Social Sciences 109

Phone: (518) 388-8043

Fax: (518) 388-6988

Email: songy@union.edu

 

CV

Teaching

                    Eco101 Introduction to Economics

                    Eco243 Introduction to Econometrics

                    Eco335 Economics of Health

                    Eco387 Seminar in Labor

Publications

The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States,” with David Bloom, David Canning, and Michael Moore, in Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, and Naohiro Ogawa (eds), Population Aging, Intergenerational Transfers and the Macroeconomy, Elgar Press, 2007. Also circulates as NBER Working Paper No. 12688.

“The Working Spouse Penalty/Premium and Married Women's Labor Supply,” Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 5 (September 2007), pp. 279-304.

“Recall Bias in the Displaced Workers Survey: Are Layoffs Really Lemons?” Labour Economics, Vol. 14 (June 2007), pp. 335-45.

“Welfare Reform and Changes in the Economic Well-being of Children,” with Neil G. Bennett and Hsien-Hen Lu, Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 23 (December 2004), pp. 671-99. Also circulates as NBER Working Paper No. 9399.

“Children Facing Economic Hardships in the United States: Differentials and Changes in the 1990s,” with Hsien-Hen Lu, Julian Palmer, Mary Clare Lennon, and J. Lawrence Aber, Demographic Research, Vol. 10 (June 2004), pp. 285-338. Also circulates as ISERP Working Paper No. 2003-04.

Working Papers

“Training, Technological Changes, and Displacement,” March 2007.

“The Effects of Statistical Discrimination on the Firm-Specific Training and Wage Profiles of Men and Women,” December 2003.