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Assistant Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University
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Yujung Hwang is an assistant professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University. She works on applied microeconomics about topics related to immigration, race, and culture. She received her Ph.D. degree in economics from Yale University in the year 2019, and her dissertation was about South Asian immigrants' cultural assimilation in the UK. Before joining Johns Hopkins in 2020, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She grew up in South Korea and completed her undergraduate degree in economics and mathematics at Yonsei University in Seoul in the year 2012.
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