Jihoo Han
- Doctoral Student
- Research Areas: Public Budgeting & Financial Management, Local Government Finance, Fiscal Health and Sustainability, Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations, Spatial Econometrics
Additional Information
Bio
Jihoo Han is a first-year doctoral student at UNO’s School of Public Administration. She earned a B.A. and M.A. in Public Administration from Soongsil University (Seoul), with a double major in Business Administration and an Interdisciplinary Major in Social Enterprise and Social Innovation. She also completed one semester of doctoral coursework at Sungkyunkwan University.
Her scholarship examines local public finance—how fiscal constraints, intergovernmental relations, and spatial interdependence shape local governments’ financial operations. Using spatial econometrics, her work identifies spillovers in functional expenditures and strategic interactions among jurisdictions.
Her current research aims to develop fiscal management approaches to sustain local fiscal health amid technological, demographic, and economic change. With a focus on policy-relevant, empirically rigorous research, she studies debt use and management, the drivers of financial decisions and their interactions across institutions, markets, and neighboring jurisdictions, and the diffusion of practices over space.
Education
M.A. in Public Administration, Soongsil University
B.A. in Public Administration & Business Administration (Finance), Soongsil University
Honors and Awards
Additional Information
Bio
Jihoo Han is a first-year doctoral student at UNO’s School of Public Administration. She earned a B.A. and M.A. in Public Administration from Soongsil University (Seoul), with a double major in Business Administration and an Interdisciplinary Major in Social Enterprise and Social Innovation. She also completed one semester of doctoral coursework at Sungkyunkwan University.
Her scholarship examines local public finance—how fiscal constraints, intergovernmental relations, and spatial interdependence shape local governments’ financial operations. Using spatial econometrics, her work identifies spillovers in functional expenditures and strategic interactions among jurisdictions.
Her current research aims to develop fiscal management approaches to sustain local fiscal health amid technological, demographic, and economic change. With a focus on policy-relevant, empirically rigorous research, she studies debt use and management, the drivers of financial decisions and their interactions across institutions, markets, and neighboring jurisdictions, and the diffusion of practices over space.
Education
M.A. in Public Administration, Soongsil University
B.A. in Public Administration & Business Administration (Finance), Soongsil University
Honors and Awards