Grants and Awards
- 2019. The Byron A. Alexander Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, University of Kansas.
- 2019. Poster Presentation Winner, Population Association of America.
- 2018-2019. General Faculty Research Fund, University of Kansas. "Changing Educational Marital Pattern and Family Economic Well-being." ($10,304)
- 2018-2019. National Science Foundation (# 1801820). Byeongdon Oh's Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: "Why Has the Meritocratic Power of Advanced Degrees Declined?: The Role of Higher Education in Promoting Upward Mobility." ($12,000)
- 2018-2020. The National Research Foundation of Korea. Co-PI (PI: Young-mi Kim, Co-PI: ChangHwan Kim, Bong-oh Kye, Yoon Choi, Sungjae Hwang, and Hae Yeon Choo) "Inequality and Demographic Changes." ($256,000 = 281.6 million Korean won)
- 2016. Research Paper Award. American Sociological Association's Asia and Asian America Section.
- 2016-2018. Korean Studies Promotion Service. Co-PI (PI, Sungkyun Lee, Co-PI: ChangHwan Kim, Hyunjoon Park, Soo-yong Byun, and KwangYeong Shin) "Education and Social Mobility in Korea." ($136,000 = 150 million Korean won)
- 2015-2016. General Faculty Research Fund, University of Kansas. "Labor Market Inequality in South Korea." ($15,346)
- 2015. Korea Foundation. Conference Grant for the 4th Annual Conference of Association of Korean Sociologists in America ($5,000).
- 2014-2015. Principal Investigator (Co-PI: Christopher R. Tamborini at SSA, Co-PI: Arthur Sakamoto at Texas A&M). The Spencer Foundation (#201400077: $50,000). "Higher Education, Long-term Earnings, and Opportunity Cost."
- 2013-2015. Principal Investigator (Co-I: Arthur Sakamoto at Texas A&M, Significant Contributor: Christopher R. Tamborini at SSA). The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the NIH (1R03HD073464-01A1: $163,602). "Demographic and Educational Effects on Long-Term Earnings."
- 2012. Article Award. Academic Conference Using Korea Census Microdata. Statistics Korea.
- 2012. The Early Career Scholarship Award. The Midwest Sociological Society.
- 2011. Outstanding Article Award. American Sociological Association's Poverty, Inequality and Mobility Section.
- 2010-2011. New Faculty General Research Grant. University of Kansas ($8,000)
- 2010-2012. co-Principal Investigator (PI: Arthur Sakamoto at University of Texas). National Science Foundation Award SES 0961565 ($126,670). "Increased Earning Dispersions and Labor Market Productivity."
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Publications in English
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- Kim, ChangHwan and Arthur Sakamoto. "Women's Progress for Men's Gain? Gender-Specific Changes in the Return to Education as Measured by Family Standard-of-Living, 1990 to 2009-11." Demography 54(5): 1743-1772.
(Media Coverage: Newsweek,
CNN,
Vogue,
Fox News,
Washingtonian,
New York Post,
New York Daily News,
Seeker,
Sydney Morning Herald, etc.)
- Tamobinri, Chiristopher R. and ChangHwan Kim. "Education and Contributory Pensions at Work: Disadvantages of the Less Educated." Social Forces 95(4):1577-1606.
(Media Coverage:
AP News,
Forbes,
Chicago Tribune,
Market Watch, etc.)
- Kim, ChangHwan. 2017. "The Asian American Middle Class." in The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty, edited by Robert S. Rycroft, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, LLC.
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- Sakamoto, Arthur, ChangHwan Kim, and Isao Takei. 2013. "Moving out of the Margins and into the Mainstream: The Demographics of Asian Americans in the New South." Pp.131-164 in Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South, edited by Khyati Y. Joshi. University of Illinois Press.
- Takei, Isao, Arthur Sakamoto and ChangHwan Kim.The Socioeconomic Attainments of Non-Immigrant Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese Americans. Race and Social Problems 5:198-212.
- Kim, ChangHwan. "Detailed Wage Decompositions: Revisiting the Identification Problem." Sociological Methodology 43:346-63.
- Supplement on the Computation of Standard Errors
- Stata Data File
- Stata Code: Do file
- Kim, ChangHwan and Arthur Sakamoto. "Immigration and the Wages of Native Workers: The Spatial Versus the Occupational Approaches." Sociological Focus 46:85-105.
- Sakamoto, Arthur and ChangHwan Kim. 2013. "The Economic Characteristics of Asian Americans in the 21st Century." In The Economics of Inequality, Poverty and Discrimination in the 21st Century, edited by Robert S. Rycroft. ABC-CLIO.
- Tamborini, Christopher R. and ChangHwan Kim. "Are Proxy Interviews Associated with Biased Earnings Reports? Marital Status and Gender Effects of Proxy." Social Science Research 42:499-512.
- 2012
- 2011
- Kim, ChangHwan. 2011. "Race, Gender, and the Labor Market: Inequalities at Work By Robert L. Kaufman Lynne Reinner Publishers." Social Forces. doi: 10.1093/sf/sor014 (Book Review).
- Sakamoto, Arthur, ChangHwan Kim, and Isao Takei. 2011. "The Japanese American Family." Pp. 252-76 in Ethnic Families in America: Patterns and Variations (5th Edition) eds by R. Wright, Jr., C.H. Mindel, T. Van Tran, and R. W. Habenstein. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
- 2010
- Kim, ChangHwan and Arthur Sakamoto. 2010. "Have Asian American Men Achieved Labor Market Parity with Whites?" American Sociological Review 75:934-57.
-- Media Coverage: Reuters;
UPI;
Seoul Newspaper;
China News
- Kim, ChangHwan. 2010. "Decomposing the Change in the Wage Gap Between White and Black Men over Time, 1980-2005: An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Method."
Sociological Methods & Research 38:619-51.
- Kim, ChangHwan and Arthur Sakamoto. 2010. "Assessing the Consequences of Declining Unionization and Public-Sector Employment: A Density-Function Decomposition of Rising Inequality from 1983 to 2005." Work and Occupations 37:119-61. (The lead article)
- Sakamoto, Arthur and ChangHwan Kim. 2010. "Is Rising Earnings Inequality Associated with Increased Exploitation? Evidence for U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1971-1996." Sociological Perspectives 53:19-43.
-- Winner of the 2011 Outstanding Article Award, American Sociological Association Section on The Poverty, Inequality, and Mobility.
- Sakamoto, Arthur, Hyeyoung Woo and ChangHwan Kim. 2010. "Does an Immigrant Background Ameliorate Racial Disadvantage? The Socioeconomic Attainments of Second-Generation African Americans." Sociological Forum 25:123-46.
- 2009
- 2008
- 2006
- 2003
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Publications in Korean