Taehyun (Ethan) Kim is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at The Ohio State University. His research examines how families respond to shifting economic and policy landscapes, with broad interests in work, family, aging, and social inequality. His work focuses particularly on how labor market institutions and social policies shape family behavior, intergenerational relationships, and inequality across the life course. Currently, Taehyun studies how changes in labor market policies affect both parents and their children. Drawing primarily on longitudinal data, he uses causal inference methods to examine the demographic consequences of policy changes and the structural forces that (re)produce inequality across families and generations.

Taehyun holds an MSc in Economics from the Barcelona School of Economics (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and dual bachelor’s degrees in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea.