Research Staff

Sokbae (Simon) Lee

Columbia University and IFS

Sokbae is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University. His research focuses on theoretical and applied econometrics.

Selected Publications

Sparse HP filter: Finding kinks in the COVID-19 contact rate

In this paper, we estimate the time-varying COVID-19 contact rate of a Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model. Our […]

Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Yuan Liao, Myung Hwan Seo, Youngki Shin
24 June 2020 | CWP32/20
An econometric perspective on algorithmic subsampling

Datasets that are terabytes in size are increasingly common, but computer bottlenecks often frustrate a complete […]

Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Serena Ng
4 May 2020 | CWP18/20
Causal inference in case-control studies

We investigate identification of causal parameters in case-control and related studies. The odds ratio in the […]

Sung Jae Jun, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
4 May 2020 | CWP19/20
Identifying the effect of persuasion

We set up an econometric model of persuasion and study identification of key parameters under various […]

Sung Jae Jun, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
9 December 2019 | CWP69/19

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Identifying the effect of persuasion
Sung Jae Jun, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
19 March 2018 | CWP19/18
A tale of two Koreas: property rights and fairness

We compare two groups of the non-student Korean population—native-born South Koreans (SK) and North Korean refugees […]

Syngjoo Choi, Byung-Yeon Kim, Jungmin Lee, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
9 December 2019 | CWP70/19
Knowledge spillovers and patent citations: trends in geographic localization, 1976-2015

This paper examines the trends in geographic localization of knowledge spillovers via patent citations, extracting multiple […]

Hyuk-Soo Kwon, Jihong Lee, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Ryungha Oh
30 October 2019 | CWP58/19

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Knowledge spillovers and patent citations: trends in geographic localization, 1976-2015
Hyuk-Soo Kwon, Jihong Lee, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Ryungha Oh
6 December 2017 | CWP55/17
Non-asymptotic inference in a class of optimization problems

This paper describes a method for carrying out non-asymptotic inference on partially identified parameters that are […]

Joel L. Horowitz, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
17 May 2019 | CWP23/19
Optimal Data Collection for Randomized Control Trials

In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment effect estimator and the power […]

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Daniel Wilhelm
2 May 2019 | CWP21/19

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Optimal data collection for randomized control trials
Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Daniel Wilhelm
23 October 2017 | CWP45/17
Identifying effects of multivalued treatments

Multivalued treatment models have typically been studied under restrictive assumptions: ordered choice, and more recently unordered […]

Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Bernard Salanie
12 June 2018 | CWP34/18

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Identifying effects of multivalued treatments
Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Bernard Salanie
8 December 2015 | CWP72/15
Identifying the effect of persuasion

We set up an econometric model of persuasion and study identification of key parameters under various […]

Sung Jae Jun, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
19 March 2018 | CWP19/18

Latest version

Identifying the effect of persuasion
Sung Jae Jun, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
9 December 2019 | CWP69/19