Hong Seok Kim
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Department of Economics
Iowa State University
518 Farm House Lane, Ames, Iowa 50011-1054
hongseok@iastate.edu
I am on the 2026-2027 academic job market
I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Iowa State University. Before beginning my Ph.D., I received my bachelor's and master's degrees from Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea.
My research interests are in macroeconomics, public economics, and the economics of aging. I study how demographic change and public policy shape household decisions and broader macroeconomic outcomes. More information is available on my research page.
My job market paper is Constrained-Optimal Social Security Reform with a Debt Ceiling and Learning by Doing.