Jieun  Lee

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Biography

Jieun Lee earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Emory Rollins School of Public Health. She specializes in quantitative skills, including machine learning and spatial econometrics. Her research centers on addressing health disparities. Specifically, she investigates the heterogeneous treatment effects of clinical and policy interventions on health outcomes and identifies key effect modifiers, utilizing causal artificial intelligence methods. She also studies the differences in chronic disease profiles, such as diabetes, across various social determinants of health (SDOH) subgroups. Additionally, she investigates how endogenous spillover effects, influenced by both geographic proximity and SDOH distance, impact health outcomes to inform tailored health economic policies.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA
      Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Economics (2023)
         Dissertation: Essays on Spatial, Health, and Socioeconomic Interactions
      Master of Science (MS) in Mathematics (2022), Statistics-Applied (2021)

Ewha Womans University, South Korea
      Master of Arts (MA) in Economics (2016); Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics (2013)

Research Interest

Health Economics (Focus Areas: Health disparities, Machine Learning, Causal AI, Spatial Econometrics, Socioeconomics)

Working Papers

1. Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Intensive Blood Pressure Control on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Nondiabetic Patients (with H.Shao)
2. Identifying Novel Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Subgroups among the General US Population: A Machine Learning Approach (with Q.Xue, P.Li, E.Staton, M.Weber, Y.Xi, G.Garcia, M.Ali, & H.Shao) Poster
3. Specification and Estimation of Spatial Interaction Models for Nonnegative Origin-destination Flows (with H.Jeong)