2025
Heeyoung Lee and Tse-Chuan Yang
"How Does County Educational Composition Affect Mortality?"
Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series, Research Brief #139
Heeyoung Lee and Tse-Chuan Yang
"Unequal Spillover of Human Capital: Longitudinal Analysis of Mortality Among Populations by College Degree in US Counties, 2010-2022"
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Heeyoung Lee and Matt Vogel
"Exposure to Police Killing and Adolescents' Self-Concept: Diverging Effects for Black and White American Youths"
Journal of Adolescence
Heeyoung Lee and Seong-Jo Jung
"Gender Differences in the Relationship between Coming Out as LGB to Family and Depression in South Korea"
Society and Mental Health
🏆 2024 Paul Meadows, Excellence in Research Award Winner, Sociology Department, University at Albany, SUNY
Tse-Chuan Yang, Carla Shoff, Kate Strully, and Heeyoung Lee
"Features of Residential Counties and Individual Health Conditions for Opioid Use Disorder Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries"
The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
Seong-Jo Jung, Heeyoung Lee, and Chan S. Suh
"Moving Apart and Coming Together: The Dynamics of Coalition Building in the Case of South Korean LGBTQ Movement"
Journal of Homosexuality
2024
Heeyoung Lee and Tse-Chuan Yang
"Spatial and Temporal Dimension of Black-White Mental Health Paradox in the US: Effect of Cumulative Neighborhood Disadvantage"
Population Research & Policy Review
Heeyoung Lee
"State-Level Structural Sexism and Adolescent Sexual Violence Victimization in the US"
Child Abuse and Neglect
Heeyoung Lee
"Delinquency During Puberty as a Biosocial Behavior: Time-Varying Effects of Social Contexts on Girl's Delinquency in South Korea"
Criminal Justice and Behaviors
🏆 2022 Paul Meadows, Excellence in Research Award Winner, Sociology Department, University at Albany, SUNY
Heeyoung Lee, Sooyeon Moon, and Na-Young Lee
"Industry Culture Matters: Sexual Harassment in the South Korean Film Industry"
Violence Against Women
2023
Seong-Jo Jung and Heeyoung Lee
"Open, Discreet, and Repressive Closet: Latent Class Analysis on the Patterns of LGBTQ+ Youth's Coming Out"
The Korean Journal of Sociology [in Korean]
🏆 2023 Graduate Student Research Award Winner, Sociology Department, Chung-Ang University
2021
Heeyoung Lee, Dawool Cheong, and Seong-Jo Jung
"A Democratic Response to COVID-19 or Governance with People Without Rights"
Memory & Vision [in Korean]
🏆 2021 Democracy Academic Paper Contest Winner, Korean Democracy Foundation
🏆 2022 Academic Paper Award Winner, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy
2019
Heeyoung Lee and Na-Young Lee
"Constituting 'Premature Girls' during the 1960s-70s in South Korea: A Gendered Regime of Sexual Efficiency"
The Journal of Asian Women [in Korean]
Heeyoung Lee and Na-Young Lee
"Constructing the National Body: Child Development in the Postcolonial Nation-State during the 1960s-1970s"
Society and History [in Korean]
Technical Reports
Korean Film Council (PI: Na-Young Lee)
"2023 Sexual Harassment in the Film Industry Survey"
2024
Korean Film Council (PI: Na-Young Lee)
"2020 Sexual Harassment in the Film Industry Survey"
2021
Democratic Party of Korea (PI: Na-Young Lee)
"Youth's Attitude Towards Gender"
2019
Heeyoung Lee
"Permeable Boundaries: How Neighboring States' Policy Environments Shape Local Mortality Rates in The United States"
Revise and Resubmit
Tse-Chuan Yang, Carla Shoff, Heeyoung Lee, and Kiwoong Park
"Research Note: Opioid Use Disorder Diagnosis during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Mortality Rates among Older Medicare Beneficiaries in the US"
Revise and Resubmit
Tse-Chuan Yang, Heeyoung Lee, and Golam Morshed Suhel
"Age Segregation and Deaths of Despair among Older Adults, 2010-2022: Rural/Urban County Comparisons"
Revise and Resubmit
Heeyoung Lee, Jungmin Shin, and Jonathan Dirlam
"Structural Sexism and Sexual Harassment"
Revise and Resubmit
Heeyoung Lee
"Geographic Structure of Health Disparities in the US: Decomposing Compositional and Contextual Effects Across Census Tracts, Counties, and States"
Under Review
Matt Vogel, Heeyoung Lee, Taylor Kaser, and Yoobin Kim
"Misappropriating Vulnerability: Assessing the Social Vulnerability Index as a Predictor of Firearm Violence"
Under Review
Seong-Jo Jeong, Bomi Kim, Heeyoung Lee, and Hyemin Lee
"Substance Use and Mental Health Outcomes among Gay and Bisexual Men in South Korea: A Cross-Sectional Study"
Under Review
Heeyoung Lee and Patricia Homan
"Long-Term Effect of Structural Racism on Cardiopulmonary Symptoms in The U.S."
(draft available)
Heeyoung Lee and Matt Vogel
"Privilege or Threat: American Youth Responses to Contested Racial Boundaries"
(draft available)
Heeyoung Lee
"Impacts of State Policies Spatial Spillover on Educational Health Disparities"
(drafting)
Heeyoung Lee
"Longitudinal Relationship between Macro-Social Context and Educational Mortality Disparities"
(drafting)
Heeyoung Lee
"Cognitive Decline after Partner Loss in the US: Heterogeneous Impacts across States"
(drafting)
Scott Schieman and Heeyoung Lee
"Social Distance Fallout: Isolation During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic"
(drafting)
Chris Lowenstein, David H. Rehkopf, Heeyoung Lee, Xiaoyu Yao, and Kate Strully
"The Earned Income Tax Credit and Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities across Labor Market Contexts"
(drafting)
Kate Strully, Heeyoung Lee, Chris Lowenstein, and David Rehkoph
"Refundable Tax Credits and Income Inequality Across the United States"
(drafting)
Yuna Lee and Heeyoung Lee
"Policing at Racial Boundaries in NYC"
(drafting)