Seonghoon Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seonghoon Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seonghoon |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Singapore Management University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8042-8776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating Unemployment Without Unemployment Insurance: Evidence From Singapore
This study investigates the short‐term impacts of unemployment among older workers (aged 50–62) in Singapore, a setting without public unemployment insurance. Using monthly panel data from the Singapore Life Panel, we analyse dynamic effects on major life outcomes such as income, spending, health, and subjective wellbeing over 2 years post‐unemployment. Our findings reveal substantial initial earnings losses with incomplete recovery: income remai…
The association of nationwide trainee doctor mass resignations in South Korea with hospital utilization, expenditure, and patient outcomes
In February 2024, over 90% of trainee doctors in South Korea’s teaching hospitals resigned en masse, severely disrupting healthcare delivery. We evaluated the associations of this mass resignation with hospital admission and length of stay, expenditure, and patients’ health outcomes in a tertiary teaching hospital. We analyzed inpatient claims data from Jeju National University Hospital (August 2022–July 2024), encompassing 40,577 hospital episod…
Consumption Responses to Income Shocks through Lottery Winning: Evidence from Older Adults in Singapore
We study the effects of lottery winning on consumption spending using household survey data of older individuals aged 50–70 years in Singapore. We find strong consumption responses to a transitory income shock from lottery wins, and lottery winners spend about half of their prizes within 12 months of winning. We show that consumption responses are stronger among households with more binding liquidity constraints. The strong consumption response s…
Case report: Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis masquerading as adult ADHD in psychiatric practice
This case demonstrates that CTX can masquerade as adult ADHD, emphasizing the necessity for thorough assessments in atypical ADHD presentations. Psychiatrists should consider rare metabolic disorders like CTX in similar cases, which may enable timely intervention and improve patient outcomes
Learning Camp, Language of Instruction, and Education Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi
We conducted a randomized experiment to study the impacts of a summer learning camp and the language of instruction on education outcomes. The program, covering social studies and mathematics, provided additional high-quality learning time for 4th and 5th graders in Malawi. The program significantly increased test scores in social studies and mathematics (0.24–0.36 standard deviations). We find suggestive evidence that the impact on test scores i…
How do AI and human users interact? Positioning of AI and human users in customer service
Situated at the intersection of language, discourse, and communication studies, the present study delves into the dynamics of human-artificial intelligence (AI) interactions. Our study centers on AI-based voice assistants which employ natural language processing to communicate with human users. With a dataset derived from 200 recorded interactions between human users and AI-based voice assistants of a leading Korean telecommunications provider, w…
The Impact of Sexual Violence Victimization on Acculturative Stress and Hazardous Drinking Among North Korean Refugee Women in South Korea
North Korean refugee women face significant risks of traumatic experiences, including sexual exploitation and violence, both in North Korea and during migration. However, there is limited research on the long-term effects of sexual violence among these women. Using data from 245 North Korean refugee women, collected by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea in 2017, we examined the impact of sexual violence victimization during pre-migrati…
Health shocks, health and labor market dynamics, and the socioeconomic-health gradient in older Singaporeans
The Evolution of Income Risk and Consumption Insurance in South Korea over the Last Two Decades
Using data from the Korea Labor Income Panel Study, we study the evolution of income risk and consumption insurance against transitory and permanent income shocks in South Korea over the last two decades. We find a decreasing trend in both income and consumption risks. Furthermore, we estimate that 47.6% of permanent income shocks and 9.8% of transitory income shocks pass through to consumption. We also provide evidence of substantial improvement…
The Role of Career and Wage Incentives in Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Field Experiment in Malawi
We study how career and wage incentives affect labor productivity through self-selection and incentive effect channels using a two-stage field experiment in Malawi. First, recent secondary school graduates were hired with either career or wage incentives. After employment, half of the workers with career incentives randomly received wage incentives, and half of the workers with wage incentives randomly received career incentives. Career incentive…
Potential crime risk and housing market responses
Changes in Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Role of Positive and Negative Social Support
Depression severely affects older adults in the United States. As part of the social environment, significant social support was suggested to ameliorate depression among older adults. We investigate how varying forms of social support moderate depressive symptomatology among older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). Data were analyzed using a sample of 11,400 adults, aged 65 years or older, from the 2006-2012 Health and Retirement Stud…
Writing “Mother Earth”: Red Power Newspapers, Environmental Justice, and Simon J. Ortiz’s Poetry
This paper explores how the early poetry of Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) engages in environmental concerns and ethics rooted within the oral tradition that was recovered during the Red Power Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. In various publications, Red Power activists articulated their concerns about the destructive results of the encroachment of US capitalist corporations onto tribal lands. Ortiz shared these concerns, developing his own poetic…
Cronbach’s Coefficient Alpha: Well Known but Poorly Understood
This study disproves the following six common misconceptions about coefficient alpha: (a) Alpha was first developed by Cronbach. (b) Alpha equals reliability. (c) A high value of alpha is an indication of internal consistency. (d) Reliability will always be improved by deleting items using “alpha if item deleted.” (e) Alpha should be greater than or equal to .7 (or, alternatively, .8). (f) Alpha is the best choice among all published reliability …
We Have Always Had These Many Voices: Red Power Newspapers and a Community of Poetic Resistance
We Have Always Had These Many Voices”:Red Power Newspapers and a Community of Poetic Resistance Seonghoon Kim (bio) The era of Red Power in the 1960s and 1970s was a reassertion of the voice of American Indians. Through various activist organizations and institutions, the people began to fully articulate their communal concerns and realities within the US-Indigenous colonial relationship. Accompanying and extending from this activism, the number …
Long-Term Health Effects of Malaria Exposure around Birth: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
In the early twentieth century, the Japanese colonial government initiated an island-wide malaria eradication campaign in Taiwan, resulting in not only a rapid decline in malaria across time but also elimination of disparity across regions. Exploiting variations in malaria deaths caused by the campaign, we estimate causal effects of malaria exposure around birth on the health of elderly born in the colonial period. To mitigate potential biases ca…
Then One Day We Create Something Unexpected”: Tribalography's Decolonizing Strategies in LeAnne Howe's Evidence of Red
"Then One Day We Create Something Unexpected":Tribalography's Decolonizing Strategies in LeAnne Howe's Evidence of Red Elizabeth Horan (bio) and Seonghoon Kim (bio) Much of the recent, growing acclaim for the work of Choctaw writer LeAnne Howe concerns her first and second novels, Shell Shaker (2001) and Miko Kings (2006).1 Her mixed genre volume, Evidence of Red (2005, henceforth, Evidence) has, by contrast, received relatively less attention. E…
The Lasting Impact of Parental Early Life Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Economic transition, higher education and worker productivity in China
Morphometric Analysis of Maxillary Sinus Floor and Alveolar Process in Korean
Testing the Difference Between Two Alpha Coefficients With Small Samples of Subjects and Raters
Researchers sometimes need a statistical test of the hypothesis that two values of Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient are equal. The situation may involve scores from two different measures administered to independent random samples or from the same measure administered to random samples from two different populations. Feldt derived a test that functions well with large or moderate numbers of subjects. However, he validated this test only w…
Economic transition, higher education and worker productivity in China
We Have Always Had These Many Voices: Red Power Newspapers and a Community of Poetic Resistance
We Have Always Had These Many Voices”:Red Power Newspapers and a Community of Poetic Resistance Seonghoon Kim (bio) The era of Red Power in the 1960s and 1970s was a reassertion of the voice of American Indians. Through various activist organizations and institutions, the people began to fully articulate their communal concerns and realities within the US-Indigenous colonial relationship. Accompanying and extending from this activism, the number …
The Lasting Impact of Parental Early Life Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Health shocks, health and labor market dynamics, and the socioeconomic-health gradient in older Singaporeans
Potential crime risk and housing market responses
Long-Term Health Effects of Malaria Exposure around Birth: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
In the early twentieth century, the Japanese colonial government initiated an island-wide malaria eradication campaign in Taiwan, resulting in not only a rapid decline in malaria across time but also elimination of disparity across regions. Exploiting variations in malaria deaths caused by the campaign, we estimate causal effects of malaria exposure around birth on the health of elderly born in the colonial period. To mitigate potential biases ca…
Testing the Difference Between Two Alpha Coefficients With Small Samples of Subjects and Raters
Researchers sometimes need a statistical test of the hypothesis that two values of Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient are equal. The situation may involve scores from two different measures administered to independent random samples or from the same measure administered to random samples from two different populations. Feldt derived a test that functions well with large or moderate numbers of subjects. However, he validated this test only w…
Economic transition, higher education and worker productivity in China
Morphometric Analysis of Maxillary Sinus Floor and Alveolar Process in Korean
Then One Day We Create Something Unexpected”: Tribalography's Decolonizing Strategies in LeAnne Howe's Evidence of Red
"Then One Day We Create Something Unexpected":Tribalography's Decolonizing Strategies in LeAnne Howe's Evidence of Red Elizabeth Horan (bio) and Seonghoon Kim (bio) Much of the recent, growing acclaim for the work of Choctaw writer LeAnne Howe concerns her first and second novels, Shell Shaker (2001) and Miko Kings (2006).1 Her mixed genre volume, Evidence of Red (2005, henceforth, Evidence) has, by contrast, received relatively less attention. E…
The Lasting Impact of Parental Early Life Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Long-Term Health Effects of Malaria Exposure around Birth: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
In the early twentieth century, the Japanese colonial government initiated an island-wide malaria eradication campaign in Taiwan, resulting in not only a rapid decline in malaria across time but also elimination of disparity across regions. Exploiting variations in malaria deaths caused by the campaign, we estimate causal effects of malaria exposure around birth on the health of elderly born in the colonial period. To mitigate potential biases ca…
Cronbach’s Coefficient Alpha: Well Known but Poorly Understood
This study disproves the following six common misconceptions about coefficient alpha: (a) Alpha was first developed by Cronbach. (b) Alpha equals reliability. (c) A high value of alpha is an indication of internal consistency. (d) Reliability will always be improved by deleting items using “alpha if item deleted.” (e) Alpha should be greater than or equal to .7 (or, alternatively, .8). (f) Alpha is the best choice among all published reliability …
We Have Always Had These Many Voices: Red Power Newspapers and a Community of Poetic Resistance
We Have Always Had These Many Voices”:Red Power Newspapers and a Community of Poetic Resistance Seonghoon Kim (bio) The era of Red Power in the 1960s and 1970s was a reassertion of the voice of American Indians. Through various activist organizations and institutions, the people began to fully articulate their communal concerns and realities within the US-Indigenous colonial relationship. Accompanying and extending from this activism, the number …
Changes in Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Role of Positive and Negative Social Support
Depression severely affects older adults in the United States. As part of the social environment, significant social support was suggested to ameliorate depression among older adults. We investigate how varying forms of social support moderate depressive symptomatology among older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). Data were analyzed using a sample of 11,400 adults, aged 65 years or older, from the 2006-2012 Health and Retirement Stud…
Writing “Mother Earth”: Red Power Newspapers, Environmental Justice, and Simon J. Ortiz’s Poetry
This paper explores how the early poetry of Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) engages in environmental concerns and ethics rooted within the oral tradition that was recovered during the Red Power Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. In various publications, Red Power activists articulated their concerns about the destructive results of the encroachment of US capitalist corporations onto tribal lands. Ortiz shared these concerns, developing his own poetic…
Potential crime risk and housing market responses
The Role of Career and Wage Incentives in Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Field Experiment in Malawi
We study how career and wage incentives affect labor productivity through self-selection and incentive effect channels using a two-stage field experiment in Malawi. First, recent secondary school graduates were hired with either career or wage incentives. After employment, half of the workers with career incentives randomly received wage incentives, and half of the workers with wage incentives randomly received career incentives. Career incentive…
The Evolution of Income Risk and Consumption Insurance in South Korea over the Last Two Decades
Using data from the Korea Labor Income Panel Study, we study the evolution of income risk and consumption insurance against transitory and permanent income shocks in South Korea over the last two decades. We find a decreasing trend in both income and consumption risks. Furthermore, we estimate that 47.6% of permanent income shocks and 9.8% of transitory income shocks pass through to consumption. We also provide evidence of substantial improvement…
How do AI and human users interact? Positioning of AI and human users in customer service
Situated at the intersection of language, discourse, and communication studies, the present study delves into the dynamics of human-artificial intelligence (AI) interactions. Our study centers on AI-based voice assistants which employ natural language processing to communicate with human users. With a dataset derived from 200 recorded interactions between human users and AI-based voice assistants of a leading Korean telecommunications provider, w…
The Impact of Sexual Violence Victimization on Acculturative Stress and Hazardous Drinking Among North Korean Refugee Women in South Korea
North Korean refugee women face significant risks of traumatic experiences, including sexual exploitation and violence, both in North Korea and during migration. However, there is limited research on the long-term effects of sexual violence among these women. Using data from 245 North Korean refugee women, collected by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea in 2017, we examined the impact of sexual violence victimization during pre-migrati…
Health shocks, health and labor market dynamics, and the socioeconomic-health gradient in older Singaporeans
The association of nationwide trainee doctor mass resignations in South Korea with hospital utilization, expenditure, and patient outcomes
In February 2024, over 90% of trainee doctors in South Korea’s teaching hospitals resigned en masse, severely disrupting healthcare delivery. We evaluated the associations of this mass resignation with hospital admission and length of stay, expenditure, and patients’ health outcomes in a tertiary teaching hospital. We analyzed inpatient claims data from Jeju National University Hospital (August 2022–July 2024), encompassing 40,577 hospital episod…
Consumption Responses to Income Shocks through Lottery Winning: Evidence from Older Adults in Singapore
We study the effects of lottery winning on consumption spending using household survey data of older individuals aged 50–70 years in Singapore. We find strong consumption responses to a transitory income shock from lottery wins, and lottery winners spend about half of their prizes within 12 months of winning. We show that consumption responses are stronger among households with more binding liquidity constraints. The strong consumption response s…
Case report: Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis masquerading as adult ADHD in psychiatric practice
This case demonstrates that CTX can masquerade as adult ADHD, emphasizing the necessity for thorough assessments in atypical ADHD presentations. Psychiatrists should consider rare metabolic disorders like CTX in similar cases, which may enable timely intervention and improve patient outcomes
Learning Camp, Language of Instruction, and Education Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi
We conducted a randomized experiment to study the impacts of a summer learning camp and the language of instruction on education outcomes. The program, covering social studies and mathematics, provided additional high-quality learning time for 4th and 5th graders in Malawi. The program significantly increased test scores in social studies and mathematics (0.24–0.36 standard deviations). We find suggestive evidence that the impact on test scores i…
Navigating Unemployment Without Unemployment Insurance: Evidence From Singapore
This study investigates the short‐term impacts of unemployment among older workers (aged 50–62) in Singapore, a setting without public unemployment insurance. Using monthly panel data from the Singapore Life Panel, we analyse dynamic effects on major life outcomes such as income, spending, health, and subjective wellbeing over 2 years post‐unemployment. Our findings reveal substantial initial earnings losses with incomplete recovery: income remai…
Economics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Demography (4 works)