Yoonkyung Yuh
Email: yuhyk@ewha.ac.kr
Faculty member, Ewha Womans
University
Web page at Ewha Womens
University, Korea
Education
- Ph.D., September, 1998, Family Resource Management Graduate
Program
of the Consumer and
Textile
Sciences Department, The Ohio State University (September, 1994 --
August,
1998 )
Dissertation title: Adequacy of preparation for retirement: Mean and
pessimistic
case projections
Abstract
- Minor area : Statistics
- Passed Mock Teaching Test (March, 1997)
- Advisors : Dr. Sherman
Hanna and Dr.
Catherine
Montalto
- MS, Department of Consumer Sciences at The Ohio State
University (December, 1996)
- MA, Department of Family Resource Management at the Graduate
School
of Ewha Womans
University
in Seoul, Korea (February, 1993)
- BA , Department of Family Resource Management at Ewha Womans University
in Seoul, Korea (February, 1991)
- Top honors prize at graduation (summa cum laude; February,
1991)
- Academic scholarships (1987-- 1990)
Selected Honors and Recognitions
- Winner of $1,000 Texas Instruments Award for Outstanding
Research Paper presented at 1998 meeting of the Academy of Financial
Services.
- ACCI Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, Annual Conference,
March,
2000
- Best Dissertation Award from the Ohio Association for Family and
Consumer Sciences, presented at 1999 meeting.
- Research based on dissertation featured in an article in the New
York Times (Jan. 3, 1999) and other newspapers, and in a number of
radio broadcasts in the United States.
Teaching and Research Experience
- Teaching and Research Assistant for Dr. Sherman Hanna
(September, 1996 -- May, 1998)
- Section instructor for course Family Financial
Management I, Winter & Spring, 1997.
- Teaching Assistant for course Family Financial
Management Applications, Winter, 1997.
- Research Assistant in Computer
Applications
Center (September, 1995 -- June, 1996)
- Research Assistant on Consumer and Consumption Behavior, Ewha
Womans
University (March, 1991-- August, 1993)
- Teaching Experience in Kang Il middle school in Seoul, Korea
(March
-- July, 1990)
- Teaching License in Home Economics Education
Publications
- Moon, S. J., Yuh, Y., & Hanna, S. D. (2002). Financial ratio
analysis of Korean households. Family and Consumer Sciences
Journal,
496-535.
- Moon, S. J., Yuh, Y., & Hanna,
S. D. (2002). Financial ratio analysis of Korean households: Are U.S.
guidelines
appropriate in Korea? Consumer Interests Annual, 48.
- Moon, S. J., Yuh, Y., & Hanna, S. D. (2001). Financial ratio
analysis of Korean households In D. Sharpe (Ed.), Proceedings
of the Asian Consumer and Family Economics Association,
Fourth Biennial
Meeting, 174-186.
- Montalto, C. P., Hanna, S., & Yuh, Y. (2000). The retirement
adequacy of American households in 1998. Retirement Income
Security:
Current Practices and Emerging Issues, Preconference of
Association for Financial
Counseling and Planning Education, p. 8.
> - Montalto, C. P., Yuh, Y., & Hanna, S. (2000).
Determinants of planned
retirement age. Financial Services Review, 9(1), 1-15.
- Kim, Y., Hanna, S.,& Yuh, Y. (1999). Comparison of
household expenditure patterns in Korea and the U.S. In G. Olson
(Ed.), Proceedings of the Asian Consumer and Family Economics
Association, Third Biennial Meeting, 89-101.
- Hanna, S., Yuh, Y., & Montalto, C. P. (1999). Determinants
of
planned retirement age. Consumer Interests Annual, 45,
77-82.
- Yuh, Y., Hanna, S., & Montalto, C. P. (1998). Mean and
pessimistic
projections of retirement adequacy. Financial Services Review,
7(3), 175-193.
- Hanna, S., Gutter, M., & Yuh, Y. (1998). Estimating the
retirement adequacy of households and helping them plan for an adequate
retirement. Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling
and Planning Education, 168.
- Montalto, C. P. & Yuh, Y. (1998). Estimation of nonlinear models
with
multiply imputed data. Financial Counseling and Planning, 9
(1), 97-101.
- Yuh, Y., Montalto, C. P. & Hanna, S. (1998). Are Americans prepared for
retirement? Financial Counseling and Planning, 9(1), 1-12.
- Hanna, S., Yuh, Y., & Montalto, C. (1998). Mean and
pessimistic
projections of retirement adequacy. Proceedings of the Academy of
Financial
Services, p. 21-3. (Winner of $1,000 Texas Instruments Award.)
- Yuh, Y., Hanna, S. & Montalto, C. P. (1998). 'Average'
versus
' worst' case projections of financial assets and contributions to
retirement
accounts. Consumer Interests Annual, 44, 164.
- Yuh, Y. & Hanna, S. (1997). The demand for risky assets in
retirement portfolios, Proceedings of the Academy of Financial
Services
- Yuh, Y. & Olson, P.D. (1997). Factors affecting the
retirement
fund levels of self-employed households and wage and salary households.
Family Economics and Resource Management Biennial: The Journal
of the FERM Division of the American Association of Family and Consumer
Sciences,2, 25-31.
- Yuh, Y., DeVaney, S., Hanna, S. (1997). Effects of multiple
imputation: Empirical results using tobit analysis to investigate
determinants of the level of assets in pension accounts. Consumer
Interests Annual, 43, 169.
- Yuh, Y. & DeVaney, S.A. (1996). Determinants of
couples'
defined contribution retirement funds, Financial Counseling and
Planning,
7, 31-38.
- Bartholomae, S., Chen, P., Lee, S.L., Olson, P., Siregar, M.,
Yuh,
Y.K. & Stafford, K. (1996). Analyzing family resource management
alumni satisfaction from the consumer's perspective, In the Proceedings
of the
25th Annual Conference of the Eastern Family Economics and Resource
Management
Association, 108-117.
- Moon, S.J. & Yuh, Y. (1993, May). A study on resources
affecting
decision-making of the elderly in the family, Journal of Korean
Gerontology,
12, 78-93.
Research Interests
- Financial Counseling and Planning
- Retirement Planning
- Retirement Income Adequacy
- Investment Portfolio
- Family Financial Management
- Life Cycle Hypothesis
- Statistical Issues in family resource management
Photo in
computer
lab for Family Financial Management II, 1998
See
also
photos from July 1999 ACFEA meeting in Seoul, Korea