Sally Kwak

Email:  kwaks (at) hawaii (dot) edu

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Contact Info:
2424 Maile Way
531 Saunders Hall
Honolulu, HI  96822
Tel:  (808)956-7296
Fax:  (808)956-4347		             
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Labor Economics, Public Finance, Economics of Education


CV (PDF)


PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS

Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers (w/Tim Halliday)  Forthcoming, Economics and Human Biology  (PDF)
For a brief summary of the literature on this topic: http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/estimating_peer_effects.pdf
Popular press mentions:  BBC News, July 31, 2009;  Hawaii Public Radio, August 7, 2009

Biases in Analysis of Split-Rate Property Tax Reforms:  Hawaii's Experience 1963-1979  Forthcoming, State Tax Notes (PDF)

Taxing Timeshare Occupancy (w/Jim Mak)  State Tax Notes (2009), Volume 51 No 5 (PDF)


WORK IN PROGRESS

The Impact of Intergovernmental Incentives on Disability Rates and Special Education Spending  (PDF)

What is a Peer?  The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Endogenous Peer Effects (w/Tim Halliday)
    IZA Working Paper   (PDF)

The Effect of Middle School on Adolescent Drug Use (PDF)

Using the Property Tax to Appropriate Gains from Tourism (w/Andrew Kato, Jim Mak)  (PDF)

Property Tax Reform in Hawaii:  Kauai's Unique Inverted Split-Rate Property Tax (w/Jim Mak)  (PDF)

The Distributional Consequences of Changes in Financial Aid Packages (w/Kalena Cortes)  (PDF)


TEACHING

ECON 321 Intro to Statistics (PDF)
ECON 450 Public Finance (PDF)
ECON 452 State and Local Finance (PDF)
ECON 629 Econometrics (PDF)