SPEA - School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2009
M.P.P., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2003
B.A., summa cum laude, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, 2001

Professional Experience

• Consultant, World Bank, 2012 to Present
• Research Intern, Research and Statistics, Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry, 2002 to 2003

Awards, Honors & Certifications

• Best Teaching Assistant 2006–2007 and 2007–2008, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Ph.D. Fellowship 2004–2009, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Dean’s List (five semesters), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul Korea (top scholarship recipient in Public Administration for three semesters, President’s Scholarship for two semesters).

Professional Interests
Incarceration and Prison Programs; Applied Econometrics and Program Evaluation; Child and Family Policy

Current Projects
Work in Progress

• “Are Prison Release Programs Run by Nonprofit Organizations More Effective? Evidence from Adult Transition Centers Run by Safer Foundation”
• (With Maureen Pirog and Sang Kyoo Lee) “The Long-Run Socio-Economic Effects of a Military Coup Mandating Nationwide Expansion of Access to Higher Education”
• (With Maureen Pirog and Sang Kyoo Lee) “The Impact of Public Pension Reform on the Wellbeing of the Elderly in South Korea”
• (With Chaeyoung Chang) “Does a Dramatic Increase in Obesity Lead to More Stress and Depression of the U.S. Working Population?”
• (With Chaeyoung Chang) “The Impact of Mothers’ Employment on Child Obesity”
• (With Venkata Nadella) “The Impact of State Obesity Policies on Children’s Wellbeing”
• (With Deanna Malatesta and Craig Smith) “Licensing Occupations and Its Impact on Wages and the Quality of Service”
• (With Maureen Pirog) “The Impact of Child Support Payments on College Matriculation”
• (With Amer Hasan) “The Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) Project”

Selected Publications
Full Vita

• Jung, Haeil. 2011. “Increase in the Length of Incarceration and the Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Men Released from Illinois State Prisons.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 30(3): 499-533.
• Jung, Haeil and Maureen Pirog. 2011. "Nonexperimental Impact Evaluations" in the Workforce Investment Act: Lessons for Europe (pp. 407-429). Douglas Besharov and Phoebe Cottingham eds. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
• Anderson, David, David Berry, and Haeil Jung. April 2003. “Minnesota Minimum-Wage Report, 2002.” Research and Statistics. Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry.
• Jung, Haeil and Maureen Pirog. “Accounting for Multiple Sources of Self-Selection Bias Using Non-Experimental Methods.”
• Jung, Haeil and Maureen Pirog “Do the Relative Sizes of Treatment and Comparison Groups Matter? A Cautionary Tale for IV Estimators.” Under Review at Journal of Econometrics
• Jung, Haeil. “Are Prison Work Release Programs Effective? Evidence from the Adult Transition Centers in Illinois.” Under Review at Criminal Justice and Behavior
• Jung, Haeil. “Does Incarceration Impair the Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes of Men? Evidence from the NLSY79.”
• Jung, Haeil, Robert J. LaLonde, and Rekha Varghese. “Incarcerated Mothers, Their Children’s Placements into Foster Care, and Reentry Prospects after Incarceration.”
• Pirog, Maureen and Haeil Jung. “The Changing Composition of Young Fathers and the Effects of Early Fathering on Education Outcomes.”
• Jung, Haeil, Robert J. LaLonde, and Rekha Varghese. “The Childhood Foster Care Experiences of Female State Prisoners and What it Means for Reentry: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data from Illinois.”

• Jung, Haeil and Maureen Pirog. “Do the Relative Sizes of Treatment and Comparison Groups Matter?” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Washington, D.C., November 3-5, 2011.
• Jung, Haeil and Maureen Pirog. “Controlling for Multiple Sources of Self-Selection Bias Using Non-Experimental Methods.” The 2011 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, May 18-20, 2011.
• Fertig, Angela, Haeil Jung and David Reingold. “The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Health Insurance Coverage of Mothers and Children.” Population Association of America Conference, Washington, D.C., March 31-April 2, 2011.
• Pirog, Maureen and Haeil Jung. “The Changing Composition of Young Fathers and the Effects of Early Fathering on Education Outcomes.” Population Association of America Conference, Washington, D.C., March 31-April 2, 2011.
• Jung, Haeil and Maureen Pirog. “Controlling for Multiple Sources of Self-Selection Bias Using Non-Experimental Methods.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Boston, MA, November 4-6, 2010.
• Jung, Haeil. “Adult Transition Centers, and the Earnings and Employment of Male Ex-Prisoners.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Boston, MA, November 4-6, 2010.
• Jung, Haeil and Maureen Pirog. "Nonexperimental Impact Evaluations." What the European Social Fund Can Learn from the WIA Experience, European Commission Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunity and University of Maryland School of Public Policy, Washington, D.C., November 7, 2009.
• Jung, Haeil. “Does Incarceration Impair the Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes of Men? Evidence from the NLSY79.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Washington, D.C., November 5-7, 2009.
• Jung, Haeil. “Increase in the Length of Incarceration and the Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Men Released from Illinois State Prisons.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Los Angeles, November 6-8, 2008.
• Jung, Haeil, Robert J. LaLonde, and Rekha Varghese. “The Childhood Foster Care Experiences of Female State Prisoners and What it Means for Reentry: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data from Illinois.” 12th National Workshop on Adult and Juvenile Female Offenders, Baltimore, October 20-24, 2007.
• Jung, Haeil. “Increase in the Length of Incarceration and the Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Men Released from Illinois State Prisons.” Crime and Population Dynamics Summer Workshop, University of Maryland, June 4-5, 2007.