Eunice Sookyung Han, Ph.D. portrait
  • Assistant Professor, Economics Department
801-587-1398

Publications

  • Eunice Han & Emma Garcia (2024). The Effect of Changes in Legal Institutions Weakening Teachers’ Unions on District’s Spending on Teacher Compensation. American Journal of Education. Vol. 130(2). Published, 02/27/2024.
  • Eunice Han & Sarah Small (2024). Labor Market Experiences of United States Veterans During COVID-19: Women’s Relative Advantage. Eastern Economic Journal. Accepted, 02/26/2024.
  • Eunice Han (2024). How did the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Men’s and Women’s Returns to Unionization?. Industrial Relations. Vol. 63(2), 172-204. Published, 02/21/2024.
  • Eunice Han & Jeffrey Keefe (2023). What Teachers’ Unions Do for Teachers When Collective Bargaining in Prohibited. Labor Studies Journal. Vol. 48(2), 183-212. Published, 04/28/2023.
  • Eunice Han & Emma Garcia (2023). The Effect of Teachers’ Unions on Teacher Stress: Evidence from District-Teacher Matched Data. Labor Studies Journal. Vol. 48(1), 35-69. Published, 01/31/2023.
  • Eunice Han (2022). What Did Unions Do for Union Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic. British Journal of Industrial Relations. Vol. 61(3), 623-652. Published, 11/27/2022.
  • Eunice Han (2022). The Gendered Effects of Teachers’ unions on Teacher Attrition: Evidence from the District-Teacher Matched Data. Feminist Economics. Vol. 29(1), 141-173. Published, 08/19/2022.
  • Eunice Han (2022). The Effect of Changes in Public Sector Bargaining Laws on Teacher Union Membership. British Journal of Industrial Relations. Vol. 61(1), 33-158. Published, 07/28/2022.
  • Eunice Han & Emma Garcia (2022). Teachers’ Base Salary and Districts’ Academic Performance: Evidence from National Data. Sage Open. Published, 03/19/2022.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221082138
  • Eunice Han, Emma Garcia & Elaine Weiss (2022). Determinants of Teacher Attrition: Evidence from District-Teacher Matched Data. Education Policy Analysis Archives. Vol. 30(25). Published, 03/01/2022.
  • Eunice Han & Thomas Maloney (2022). Teachers Unionization, Socioeconomic Status, and Student Performance in the US. American Journal of Education. Vol. 128(2). Published, 01/03/2022.
  • Eunice Han (2021). The Gendered Effects of Teachers’ unions on Teacher Attrition: Evidence from the District-Teacher Matched Data. Feminist Economics. Accepted, 11/29/2021.
  • Eunice Han (2021). The Effect of Teacher Salary Expenditure on District Performance. Journal of Education Finance. Vol. 47(2), 199-224. Published, 10/11/2021.
  • Eunice Han & Thomas Maloney (2021). Teacher Unionization and Student Academic Performance: Looking Beyond Collective Bargaining. Labor Studies Journal. Vol. 46(1), 43-74. Published, 05/24/2021.
  • Eunice Han & Yongmei Ni (2020). Review of “Changes in the Performance of Students in Charter and District Sectors of U.S. Education. National Education Policy Center. Published, 12/03/2020.
  • Eunice Han (2020). The Effects of Teachers’ Unions on Gender Pay Gap among U.S. Public School Teachers. Industrial Relations. Published, 11/22/2020.
  • Eunice Han (2020). Collective Bargaining of Charter School Principals and School Performance. Leadership and Policy in Schools. Published, 07/27/2020.
  • Eunice Han (2020). Teacher Wage Penalty and Decrease in Teacher Quality: Evidence from Career Changes in CPS 2001-2010. Labor Studies Journal. Published, 06/09/2020.
  • Eunice Han (2020). The Myth of Unions’ Overprotection of Bad Teachers: Evidence from District-Teacher Matched Panel Data on Teacher Turnover. Industrial Relations. Vol. 59, 316-352. Published, 05/04/2020.
  • Eunice Han & Jeffery Keefe (2020). The Impact of Charter School Competition on Student Achievement of Traditional Public Schools after 25 Years: Evidence from National District-level Panel Data. Journal of School Choice. Published, 04/2020.
  • Eunice Han & Jeffery Keefe (2020). Teachers’ Unions: Engaging Teachers and Improving Student Achievement in States that Prohibit Collective Bargaining. Educational Policy. Published, 01/2020.
  • Eunice Han & Thomas Maloney (2019). Teacher Unionization and Student Academic Performance: Looking Beyond Collective Bargaining. Labor Studies Journal. Published, 10/2019.
  • Eunice Han (2019). The Impact of Teachers Unions on Teachers’ Well-being under Different Legal Institutions. AERA Open. Published, 08/2019.
  • “How Does Declining Unionism Affect the American Middle Class and Intergenerational Mobility?” Economic Mobility: Research & Ideas on Strengthening Families, Communities & The Economy, Federal Reserve System’s Community Development Research Conference Publication, December 2016: 451-480. NBER Working Paper W21638. Published, 12/06/2016.
  • Eunice Han (2016). Review of Equality on trial: gender and rights in the modern American workplace. Labor History. Published, 10/03/2016.
  • "The War Against Public Sector Collective Bargaining in the U.S." The Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2012, 54 (3): 386-408. Published, 06/25/2012.

Research Statement

My research has focused on workers’ well-being and inequality. Because the goals of labor unions are aligned with these topics, most of my studies examine the relationship between unions and labor market outcomes. In the U.S., public-sector unions are the backbone of labor unions (the average private-sector union membership rate was less than 6% while the rate in the public-sector was 33% in 2019), so naturally, my studies focus on unions in the public sector. Many of my studies look at the teachers’ labor market to take advantage of high-quality data from public school systems.

Presentations

  • Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Conference. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/13/2022.
  • Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Research Conference. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/28/2022.
  • Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Annual Conference. Conference Paper, Presented, 06/13/2021.
  • Auburn University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/26/2021.
  • Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Conference. Presentation, Presented, 11/21/2020.
  • Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), Virtual Conference. Presentation, Presented, 06/13/2020.
  • Teacher wage penalty and decrease in teacher quality: Evidence from career changers. Conference Paper, Presented, 10/14/2018.
  • Teachers' labor market. Invited Talk/Keynote, Accepted, 09/27/2018.
  • Teachers Unions Under Different Legal Environment. Invited Talk/Keynote, Accepted, 02/27/2018.
  • Candidates for Free Riding in a Post-Agency Shop Public Sector. Conference Paper, Presented, 06/01/2017.
  • Teachers Unions and Teacher Dismissal , Colorado State University, Fort Colins, US. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/17/2017.
  • Teacher Turnover, Davis County legislators, Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/12/2017.
  • "The Impact of Teachers Unions on Teachers' Well-being under Different Legal Institutions: Evidence from District-Teacher Matched Data." SEA (Southern Economic Association) Annual Conference, D.C., US. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/19/2016.
  • "The Impact of Teachers Unions on Teachers' Well-being under Different Legal Institutions: Evidence from District-Teacher Matched Data."BYU (Brigham Young University), Provo, US. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/17/2016.
  • AFIT(Association For Institutional Thought), Western Social Science Association 59th annual meeting, San Francisco. US. Panel, Accepted, 11/14/2016.
  • "The Myth of Unions’ Overprotection of Bad Teachers: Evidence from District-Teacher Matched Panel Data on Teacher Turnover." NBER (National Bureau of Economics Research) Labor Studies Program Meeting, San Francisco, CA, US. Conference Paper, Presented, 02/12/2016.
  • "Teachers' Labor Market". Harvard Trade Union Program, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, US. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/08/2016.

Languages

  • Korean, fluent.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Republic of Korea