Park is an environmental and labor economist interested broadly in how environmental factors shape economic opportunity. He is particularly interested in the effects of the natural environment on labor markets and human capital outcomes, the process by which firms and households adapt to environmental change, and the implications of climate change for economic mobility.
Park received a PhD in economics from Harvard University (2017) where he was an NSF Fellow, and master’s degrees in Environmental Change and Management (MSc) and Development Economics (MSc) from Oxford University (2010, 2011), where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Currently, Park is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the School of Social Policy and Practice (primary) and the Wharton School’s Department of Business Economics and Public Policy (secondary). He is also a research affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and a faculty affiliate of the California Policy Lab (CPL), the Wharton ESG Initiative, and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.