Kitae Sohn
Lecturer
School of Economics and Finance
Curtin University
Australia
Biography
Kitae Sohn received a Ph.D. in economics at the State University of New York at Albany in 2009. He joined the department in 2017 after teaching economics at Konkuk University in South Korea. He is a labor economist with special interests in health, education, family, and US history. He has analyzed microdata of several countries, mainly Indonesia, the US, and South Korea. His research has been featured in inter alia Economics & Human Biology, Journal of Development Studies, Small Business Economics, Quality of Life Research, Women & Health, Journal of Gerontology, American Journal of Human Biology, Evolution & Human Behavior, and Social Science History.
Research Interest
"Economic History, Economics of Education, Health Economics, Labour Economics"
Publications
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Parents are rapidly getting older in South Korea. Human Fertility 20: 212–216.
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Men's valuation of temporal proximity to female virginity: Evidence from prostitutes. Deviant Behavior 38: 1089–1101.
