Lee, Hyojung

Dept. of Environmental Planning / Urban and Regional Planning
Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development | Assistant Professor

Housing Demography, Housing/Urban Economics, Policy Analysis, Neighborhood Change, Community Development, Social Inequality

hyojung.lee@snu.ac.kr
02-880-9323

Education

  • 2017.05
    Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
  • 2012.05
    Master of Planning, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
  • 2010.02
    M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University
  • 2008.02
    Bachelor of Science in Civil, Urban, and Geosystem Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University

Professional Experience

  • 2023.08-present
    Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University
  • 2019.08-2023.07
    Assistant Professor of Housing and Property Management, Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management, Virginia Tech
  • 2017.07-2019.06
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

Research

Lee, Hyojung, and Kristin L. Perkins. 2023. “The Geography of Gentrification and Residential Mobility.” Social Forces, 101(4): 18561887.

Ding, Lei, Hyojung Lee, and Raphael W. Bostic. 2022. “Effects of the Community Reinvestment Act on Small Business Lending.” Journal of Urban Affairs, 44(9): 12241243.

Lee, Kwan Ok, and Hyojung Lee. 2022. “Public Responses to COVID-19 Case Disclosure and Their Spatial Implications.” Journal of Regional Science, 62(3): 732-756.

Lee, Hyojung. 2022. “Are Millennials Leaving Town? Reconciling Peak Millennials and Youthification Hypotheses.” International Journal of Urban Sciences, 26(1): 68-86.

Lee, Hyojung. 2020. “Are Millennials Coming to Town? Residential Location Choice of Young Adults.” Urban Affairs Review 56 (2): 565604.

Lee, Hyojung, and Raphael W. Bostic. 2020. “Bank Adaptation to Neighborhood Change: Mortgage Lending and the Community Reinvestment Act.” Journal of Urban Economics 116 (March): 103211.

Lee, Hyojung, Dowell Myers, Gary Painter, Johanna Thunell, and Julie Zissimopoulos. 2020. “The Role of Parental Financial Assistance in the Transition to Homeownership by Young Adults.” Journal of Housing Economics 47 (March): 101597.

Myers, Dowell, Hyojung Lee, and Patrick Simmons. 2020. “Cohort Insights into Recovery of Millennial Homeownership after the Great Recession.” Journal of Housing Economics 47 (March): 101619.

Myers, Dowell, Gary D. Painter, Julie Zissimopoulos, Hyojung Lee, and Johanna Thunell. 2019. “Simulating the Change in Young Adult Homeownership Through 2035: Effects of Growing Diversity and Rising Educational Attainment.” Housing Policy Debate, 29(1): 126142.

Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth, Hyojung Lee, and Gary D. Painter. 2019. “Veblen Goods and Urban Distinction: The Economic Geography of Conspicuous Consumption.” Journal of Regional Science, 59(1): 83117.

Green, Richard K., and Hyojung Lee. 2016. “Age, Demographics, and the Demand for Housing, Revisited.” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 61: 8698.

Lee, Hyojung, and Gary D. Painter. 2016. “Consumption Inequality in the Great Recession.” Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 41(2): 145166.

 

Project

Housing Shortages and Key Linkages to Broader Housing Problems and Solutions, University of Southern California

The Role of Metropolitan Characteristics in Cohort Transition into Home Ownership, University of Southern California

Pandemic and cities: Smart management, resilience and adaptation in Seoul and Singapore, Ministry of Education of Singapore

Cohort Behavior of Millennials in the Housing Recovery, Federal National Mortgage Association

Estimated Impacts of Parental Assistance, Wealth, and Family Background on Homeownership of Young Adults, Federal National Mortgage Association

Diverted Homeowners, the Rental Crisis and Foregone Household Formation, Research Institute for Housing America of the Mortgage Bankers Association

Veblen Goods and Metropolitan Distinction, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate

Demographic Change and Future Urban Development, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Demographics of Recovery in Post-Crash Los Angeles, John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation

Studying Demographic Migration, First 5 Los Angeles