Myong-Il Kang
Korea University, Japan
Biography
Myong-Il Kang has completed his Ph.D. in economics at Osaka University in 2009, and is presently an assistant professor at Department of Business Administration in Korea University which was established in 1956 as a highest educational institute for the Korean residents in Japan. He and Shinsuke Ikeda, the professor of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka University, have found associations between time-preferences and human behaviors by using Japanese survey data. Their joint papers are published in several academic journals such as Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Economics and Human Biology, and Japanese Economic Review.
Abstract
Abstract : Time Discounting, Present Biases, And Health-Related Behaviors: Evidence From Japan
