Woojin Kim

Woojin Kim is an Assistant Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was previously a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Aging and Health Program and received his PhD in Behavioral Economics and Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the barriers to the adoption of evidence in government, the diffusion of policies across U.S. states, the motives and effects of peer pressure in voter mobilization, and the historic role of television in American consumer culture. His ongoing projects include an empirical investigation into the recent political polarization of medical practice in the United States.