Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee

Profile

Tim gained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A., and B.A. from Seoul National University in Korea. Prior to joining Queen Mary, Tim was an Assistant Professor at Toulouse School of Economics, France from 2016 to 2018, and University of Mannheim, Germany from 2011 to 2016. Although primarily a macroeconomist, he combines data and methods from labour and public economics to study the dynamics of inequality, and how it is related to the education, occupations and industries. His work has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of Monetary Economics.

Affiliations:

• Affiliate, CEPR Macroeconomics and Growth
• Affiliate, CEPR Development Economics
• Associate, Toulouse School of Economics
• Associate, LSE Centre for Macroeconomics

Research

Publications

• Seshadri A., SYT Lee. (2019) "On the Integenerational Transmission of Economic Status", Journal Political Economy
• Seshadri A., SYT Lee. (2018) "Economic Policy and Equality of Opportunity", Economic Journal, vol 128(612), pp. F114-F151
• Aum S., Shin Y., SYT Lee. (2018) "Computerizing Industries and Routinizing Jobs: Explaining Trends in Aggregate Productivity", Journal of Monetary Economics, vol 97
• Aum S., Shin Y., SYT Lee. (2017) "Industrial and occupational employment changes during the Great Recession", FRB St. Louis Review, 99(4), pp. 307-17