Bio: Jaecheol is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. He graduated from Seoul National University (SNU) with a BA in Economics and Hispanic Linguistics and Literature as a double major. He also earned a Master’s in International Studies at the same university with a concentration in development. Before coming to Berkeley, he was a researcher at Deloitte LLC, where he participated in a project analyzing the trade effect of non-tariff measures.
Jaecheol is a grantee of a 2017 Fulbright Scholarship, which is part of the Fulbright Scholar Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. He was also awarded the Sachetti Family Fellowship, the Center for Korean Studies Grant, and the Fisher Center Research Grant for Urban Economics.
Fields of interest: Environmental Economics and Urban Economics
List of Ongoing Projects:
Environmental Economics
1) Estimating Damage from Transboundary Air Pollution in Northeastern Asian Countries
2) A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Warnings: the Case of South Korean Air Pollution Alerts
Urban Economics
1) Public Transportation and Consumer Welfare: Analyzing the Impact of New Transportation Infrastructure
2) The Impacts of Mandatory Closures: Large-size Supermarket Shutdowns in South Korea
Contact: ferleejc@berkeley.edu
