Hayeon Jeong
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Hayeon Jeong
@hjeong88.bsky.social
Environmental econ, Behavioral econ, Air pollution

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/hayeonjeong
Health Implications⚕️
Increased policy avoidance translates into health costs. More stringent events led to larger increases in air pollution during non-crackdown hours. Using an exposure–response function and real-time hourly population data, I provide rough estimates of the resulting health costs
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Key Result 2🗝️
Moreover, the magnitude of policy avoidance is proportional to the degree of policy stringency when compared 'across' multiple policy events. In other words, the more stringent the policy event was, the more increase in policy avoidance we see.
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Key Result 1🗝️
Empirically, I confirm that this theoretical prediction holds. Each policy-strengthening event is associated with a rise in policy avoidance behavior: traffic during non-regulated hours increased for the treated group relative to the control group following each policy event.
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Theoretical prediction✏️
The theoretical model predicts that the number of policy avoiders—individuals who legally circumvent the policy by exploiting loopholes (analogous to tax avoidance, in contrast to tax evasion)—increases as the policy becomes more stringent.
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Contribution📖
Existing works typically treat policy implementation as a 'dichotomous' event when assessing policy effectiveness. Instead, my paper leverages several policy-intensifying events, and examines how the magnitude of policy avoidance evolves across multiple rounds of policy strengthening.
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I'm happy to share my #JMP on the relationship between policy intensity and effectiveness!

It challenges the idea that stricter policies are always more effective by showing that policy avoidance rises with stringency during the early period of implementation.
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#Econsky #EconJobMarket #EconJMP
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM