Publications

First Author Publication

  • Kim, P., Kim, D., Scotch, R., Jeong, D., & Kowalske, K. (2025). Geospatial Analysis of Community-Level Social and Environmental Barriers for Adult Burn Injury Survivors in North Texas. Burns, 107512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2025.107512. (IF=3.2, Top 14.6% in Surgery)
    • Topic: Examining the geographic association between neighborhood environments and community integration outcomes for burn injury survivors

    • Design / Methods: Geographic mapping (descriptive study)

  • Kim, P. & Bae, H. (2022). Do firms respond differently to the carbon pricing by industrial sector? How and why? A comparison between manufacturing and electricity generation sectors using firm-level panel data in Korea”. Energy Policy, 162, 112773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112773. (IF=9.3, Top 1.1% in Economics)
    • Topic: Estimating the effects of carbon pricing on firms’ environmental performance
    • Design / Methods: Two-way fixed effects regression

Co-author Author Publications

  • Hong, S., Jeong, D., & Kim, P. (2024). Have offender demographics changed since the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from money mules in South Korea. Journal of Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2024.102156. (IF=3.3, Top 5.8% in Criminology & Penology)
    • Topic: Estimating the impacts of COVID-19 on criminal demographics
    • Design / Methods: Interrupted time series analysis
  • Maxwell, S. P., Brooks, C., Kim, P., Kim, D., McNeely, C. L., & Thomas, K. (2023). Understanding Habitats and Environmental Conditions of White-Tailed Deer Population Density and Public Health Data to Aid in Assessing Human Tick-Borne Disease Risk. Microorganisms, 11(4), 865. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37110288/. (IF=4.1, Top 30.1% in Microbiology)
    • Topic: Examining the geographic association between deer populations and distribution of tick-born diseases
    • Design / Methods: Geographic mapping (descriptive study)

Under Review

  • Kim, P. “From Stick to Carrot: Comparing the Effectiveness of Carbon Pricing on Firm Environmental Performance with Command-and-Control” (status: under review)
    • Topic: Estimating the effects of carbon pricing on firms’ environmental performance

    • Design / Methods: Difference-in-difference

    • Available at SSRN

  • Kim, P., Jung, J., Min, C., Choi, H., Kim., D, Kumar, P., Hwang, J., & Song, D. “A Pilot Comparative Study on Personal Monitoring and Deep Learning-Based Mobile Alert Intervention for PM2.5-Related Asthma Exacerbations in Children” (status: under review)
    • Topic: Predicting asthmatic risk from pollution and implementing personalized mobile alert interventions

    • Design / Methods: Deep learning (1D-CNN-LSTM)

  • Bayesian Spatial-Temporal Analysis for Policy Evaluation: Estimating the Impact of COVID-19 Social Distancing Policies Using Google Mobility Data
    • Topic: Estimating the impact of COVID-19 social distancing policies on human mobility
    • Design / Methods: Bayesian spatial-temporal modeling

Working Papers

  • “The Long-Term Impacts of Neighborhoods on Labor Market Outcomes for Children with Disabilities: Evidence from Texas” (sole author)

  • “Geospatial Analysis on Dental Health Service Access and Workforce Distribution in Kenya” (with Brenda Okumu, Caroline Kibosia, Dohyung Kim, Arthur Kemoli, Linus Ndegwa, Osman Adullahi, & Hyewon Lee)

  • “Enhancing the Spatial Interpolation of Radon Risk Using Empirical Bayesian Kriging and Bedrock Geology” (with Kristine Hahm & Dohyeong Kim)

  • “The Geography of Community Integration for Burn Injury Survivors” (with Karen Kowalske, Dohyeong Kim, & Richard Scotch)