Bongoh Kye
Ph.D, Sociology, University of California - Los Angeles (2010, expected)
M.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2005)
B.A., Sociology, Seoul National University (1997)
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
bkye@ucla.edu
Subfield
Demography, Social Stratification, Quantitative Methods and Korea
Research Interests
Dissertation: Population Change and Social Mobility in South Korea
Abstract
Korea experienced dramatic fertility decline since the 1960s. This rapid fertility decline arouses public concerns about the lack of labor supply and insufficient support for the elderly in the near future. In this dissertation, I examine the trend of fertility change, the influence of socioeconomic differentials in fertility on the fertility decline, and the implications of socioeconomic differentials for the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. First, I compare period measures, cohort measures, and ‘cross-sectional average’ measures to study the tempo and quantum of fertility change in Korea. Using both aggregate and survey data, I examine the changing patterns of marriage and childbearing. Second, I examine the educational differentials in the timing of marriage and childbearing by using survival analysis. Using decomposition techniques, I evaluate the importance of compositional change and associational change for the fertility decline. Finally, I examine the implications of differential fertility for the population renewal process. Using population renewal models, I examine the implications of differential demographic behaviors and social mobility for the future population distribution. Overall, this examination will contribute to the understanding of fertility decline in Korea. More generally, this will help to understand the interaction between demographic processes and social inequality.
Publications
- Kye, Bongoh. 2008. “Internal Labor Markets and the Effects of Structural Change: Job Mobility in Korean Labor Market between 1998 and 2000”. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 26(1): 15 – 27.
WORKING PAPERS
- Kye, Bongoh. 2008. “Delay in First Marriage and First Childbearing in Korea: Trend in Educational Differentials”. California Center for Population Research On-Line Working Paper Series. CCPR-036-08. (http://repositories.cdlib.org/ccpr/olwp/CCPR-036-08/)
- Kye, Bongoh. 2008. “Intergenerational Transmission of Women’s Educational Attainments in South Korea – An Application of Multi-group Projection Model to Social Mobility”. California Center for Population Research On-Line Working Paper Series. CCPR-039-08. (http://repositories.cdlib.org/ccpr/olwp/CCPR-39-08/)
- Kye, Bongoh and Robert Mare. “Intergenerational Effects of Enhancing Women’s Educational Attainments in South Korea: Transmission, Differential Fertility, and Assortative Mating”.
Grants and Awards
- Dissertation Year Fellowship at UCLA, 2009 - 2010
- Quality of Graduate Education Summer Fellowship 2007 Summer and 2009 Summer
- International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC 28) Travel Award (May 2007)
- University Fellowship at UCLA, 2005 – 2006
Advisors
Robert D. Mare (chair), Judith A. Seltzer, Cameron D. Campbell, Jennie E. Brand and Dawn Upchurch
Conference Presentations
- Kye, Bongoh and Robert Mare. 2009. “Intergenerational Effects of Enhancing Women’s Educational Attainments in South Korea: Transmission, Differential Fertility, and Assortative Mating”. Presented at 2009 Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (ASA) in San Francisco, CA. August 8-11 and RC 28 2009 Summer Meeting in Yale University, CT. August 4-7.
- Kye, Bongoh. 2009. “Fertility Transition in South Korea, 1960 – 2005: Tempo Effect and Demographic Transition”. Poster presented, 2009 Annual Meeting of Population Association of America (PAA) in Detroit, MI. April 30–May 2.
- Kye, Bongoh. 2009. “Changing Racial Differences in College Attendance Patterns in the United States - A Multi-State Life Table Approach”. Poster presented, 2009 Annual Meeting of PAA in Detroit, MI. April 30–May 2.
- Kye, Bongoh. 2008. “Intergenerational Transmission of Women’s Educational Attainments in Korea - An Application of Multi-group Projection Model to Social Mobility”. International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) Scientific Panel on Historical Demography Conference in UCLA, CA. December 11–13 and RC 28 2008 Summer Meeting in Stanford University, CA. August 6–9.
- Kye, Bongoh. 2008. “Delay in First Marriage and First Childbearing in Korea: Trend in Educational Differentials”. 2008 Annual Meeting of PAA in New Orleans, LA. April 17–19.
- Kye, Bongoh. 2007. “Internal Labor Markets and the Effects of Structural Change: Job Mobility in Korean Labor Market in 1998–2000”. RC 28 2007 Spring Meeting in Brno, Czech Republic. May 25–27.
- Kye, Bongoh. 2007. “Public Housing Program and Poverty Concentration”. Poster presented, 2007 Annual Meeting of PAA in New York, NY. March 31–April 2.
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