Jilli Jung

Jilli Jung
Postdoctoral Scholar

Jilli Jung is a postdoctoral researcher at SCALE. Her research focuses on examining the causal effects of K-12 education policies on adolescents’ educational and health outcomes using experimental and quasi-experimental methods. She is also interested in uncovering informative patterns and trends using descriptive methods and demographic techniques. She received her PhD in Education Policy with a dual-title in Comparative and International Education and a minor in Demography from Pennsylvania State University. She earned a BA and MA in Ethics Education from Seoul National University in South Korea. Personal Website: https://jillijung.github.io

Research Interests

Education policy; Human development; Non-academic outcomes; Demography; Civic education; Causal Inference; Equity