Jieun  Lee

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Research Interest

- Econometrics: Spatial Econometrics, Machine Learning, Causal AI
- Health Economics: Chronic Diseases, Health Economic Policy Evaluation

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)

Working Papers

Econometrics

1. Specification and Estimation of Spatial Interaction Models for Nonnegative Origin-destination Flows (with H.Jeong)
2. Standard Error Adjustment Robust to Heteroscedasticity and Spatial Correlations in Errors (with H.Jeong)
3. Rao’s Score (RS) Tests and Its Bera-Yoon (BY) Adjustments Within the Empirical Likelihood (EL) Framework (with A.Bera)

Health Economics

1. Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Intensive Blood Pressure Control (IBP) on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACE) and Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Syndrome in People with Hypertension (with Q.Xue, P.Li, E.Staton, Y.Ko, Y.Hong, J.Guo, M.Ali, and 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