Hyojung Lee

• Residential location and housing tenure choices of young adults
• Aging population and their housing needs
• Gentrification and neighborhood change
• Geography of conspicuous and inconspicuous consumption
• Impact of the Community Reinvestment Act

• Ph.D., Urban Planning and Development, University of Southern California, 2017
• MPl, Urban Planning, University of Southern California, 2012
• M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, 2010
• B.S., Civil, Urban and Geosystem Engineering, Seoul National University, 2008

• Member, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
• Member, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
• Member, Urban Affairs Association
• Member, Western Regional Science Association
• Treasurer, Korean American Real Estate Society

Journal Articles

“Cohort Insights into Recovery of Millennial Homeownership after the Great Recession,” Journal of Housing Economics (2019): 1–17 (co-authored with Dowell Myers and Patrick Simmons).

“Simulating the Change in Young Adult Homeownership Through 2035: Effects of Growing Diversity and Rising Educational Attainment,” Housing Policy Debate 29, no. 1 (2019): 126–142 (co-authored with Dowell Myers, Gary D. Painter, Julie Zissimopoulos, and Johanna Thunell).

“Veblen Goods and Urban Distinction: The Economic Geography of Conspicuous Consumption,” Journal of Regional Science 59, no. 1 (2019): 83–117 (co-authored with Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Gary D. Painter).

“The Role of Parental Financial Assistance in the Transition to Homeownership by Young Adults,” Journal of Housing Economics (2018): 1–9 (coauthored with Dowell Myers, Gary D. Painter, Julie Zissimopoulos, and Johanna Thunell).

“Are Millennials Coming to Town? The Determinants of Location Choice of Young Adults,” Urban Affairs Review (2018): 1–40.

“Small Business Lending under the Community Reinvestment Act,” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 19, no. 2 (2017): 63–84 (co-authored with Raphael W. Bostic).

“Age, Demographics, and the Demand for Housing, Revisited,” Regional Science and Urban Economics 61 (2016): 86–98 (co-authored with Richard K. Green).

“Cohort Momentum and Future Homeownership: The Outlook to 2050,” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 18, no. 1 (2016): 131–143 (co-authored with Dowell Myers).

“Consumption Inequality in the Great Recession,” Journal of Economic and Social Measurement41, no. 2 (2016): 145–166 (co-authored with Gary D. Painter).

Book Chapters

“Demographic Change and Future Urban Development” in George W. McCarthy, Gregory K. Ingram, and Samuel Moody, eds., Land and the City (Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy), 11–58 (co-authored by Dowell Myers).