Pauline Leung

Pauline Leung is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Cornell University. Her research focuses on social and labor market policy for economically vulnerable populations. Leung received her Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. She teaches courses such as Economics of the U.S. Social Safety Net. Her work is associated with the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. She can be contacted via email at pleung@cornell.edu.

Pauline Leung is a labor economist at Cornell University whose research focuses on labor economics and public economics. Her work examines the impact of social insurance programs, particularly unemployment insurance, on employment outcomes, program participation, and income. Leung's research interests include the effects of unemployment benefits on job duration, interactions between unemployment insurance and means-tested programs, and the behavioral responses to social insurance policies. She has conducted extensive analyses using administrative data and regression kink designs to evaluate the effectiveness of policies such as the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions. Her studies contribute to understanding how public programs influence labor market behavior and economic outcomes.