Rate My Professor Younghwan Song

Professor Younghwan Song is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics from Seoul National University, Korea, an M.Phil. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. Song teaches Seminar in Labor (ECO 387), Introduction to Econometrics (ECO 243), Economics of Health (ECO 335), and Introduction to Economics (ECO 101). His research interests include time use, smoking, subjective well-being, and labor displacement. He is a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, having joined in August 2014.

Song's publications have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Happiness Studies, Review of Economics of the Household, Journal of Medical Economics, Journal for Labour Market Research, Survey Research Methods, International Journal of Wellbeing, Eastern Economic Journal, Labour, and Industrial Relations. Key publications include “COVID-19 and Subjective Well-Being in the United States: Age Matters” (Journal of Happiness Studies, 2025); "Do fathers have son preference in the United States? Evidence from paternal subjective well-being" (Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, with Jia Gao); "Cost-utility and cost-benefit analysis of TAVR availability in the US severe symptomatic aortic stenosis patient population" (Journal of Medical Economics, 2022, with J. P. Sevilla et al.); "Does Telework Stress Employees Out? A Study on Working at Home and Subjective Well-Being for Wage/Salary Workers" (Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020, with Jia Gao); "Job Displacement and Subjective Well-Being: Findings From the American Time Use Survey Well-Being Models" (Journal for Labour Market Research, 2018); "A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Selective Wellbeing" (International Journal of Wellbeing, 2017); "Single Mothers' Time Preference, Smoking, and Enriching Childcare: Evidence from Time Diaries" (Eastern Economic Journal, 2013); and "Time Preference and Time Use: Do Smokers Exercise Less?" (Labour, 2011).