Ayoung Kim, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics
Mississippi State University
Office: 317 Lloyd-Ricks-Watson Bldg.
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Email: a.kim@msstate.edu
akim0402@gmail.com
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Last Updated: September 2026

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Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Boyce, M.*, Ayoung Kim, R.C. Smith, and J.J. Green, 2026, Financial Literacy and Community Development: Exploring Urban-Rural Gaps in the United States, Community Development, 1-14.
  2. Kim, Ayoung, J.J. Green, C. Johnson Gaither, and G.R. Dobbs, 2026, Analyzing Heirs’ Property Prevalence and Spillover Effects in the U.S. using Spatial Econometric Analysis, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2025.10016.
  3. Kim, E., S. Kim, and Ayoung Kim, 2025, The Evolution of Regional Analysis Methodologies: Space, Time, and Artificial Intelligence (지역분석 방법론의 진화: 공간, 시간, 그리고 인공지능), Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association, 41(4): 125-152. (in Korean)
  4. Davis, W. and Ayoung Kim, 2025, Identifying Factors Associated with Self-Reported Adult Telehealth Utilization: Evidence from Mississippi, Telemedicine and e-Health, 31(8).
  5. Sun, M.*, C. Sun, D.L. Grebner, Ayoung Kim, and T.E. McConnell, 2025, Dividing Heir Property on Forestland: Physically in Kind or Financially by Sale?, Forest Science.
  6. Tiwari, M.*, C. Sun, D.L. Grebner, Ayoung Kim, E. McConnell, 2025, Partition Actions on Forestland Owned as Heir Property and The Determinants of Court Decisions, Forest Policy and Economics, 170.
  7. Davis, W., J. Jones, E. Canales, Ayoung Kim, and D. Buys, 2024, Online Grocery Purchasing in Mississippi: Associations with Broadband, Rurality, and Household Characteristics, Frontiers in Nutrition-Food Policy and Economics, 11.
  8. Kim, Ayoung, and B.S. Waldorf, 2024, Unpacking the Gender Wage Gap in the U.S.: The Impact of Rural Employment, Age, and Occupation, Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 4(3): 706-723.
  9. Giscombe, S.*, E. Canales, G.W. Davis, Ayoung Kim, and D.R. Buys, 2024, Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables and the Role of the Food Environment, Journal of Food Distribution Research, 55(2): 23-45.
  10. Kim, E., Ayoung Kim, and K. Nam, 2024, Impacts of Demand and Supply-side Interventions on South Korea’s Housing Markets: a Dynamic Housing-CGE Analysis, The Annals of Regional Science, 73: 397-429.
  11. Kim, Ayoung, J. Lim, and A. Colletta*, 2023, How Regional Economic Structure Matters in the Era of COVID-19: Resilience Capacity of U.S. states, The Annals of Regional Science, 70: 15-185.
  12. Yun, S.D. and Ayoung Kim, 2022, Economic Impact of Natural Disasters: A Myth or Mismeasurement?, Applied Economics Letters, 29(10): 861-866.
  13. Kim, Ayoung, B.S. Waldorf, and N.T. Duncan, 2021, U.S. Immigration Policy and Brain Waste, The Annals of Regional Science, 66(2): 209-236.
  14. Kumar, I., A. Zhalnin, Ayoung Kim, and L. J. Beaulieu, 2017, Transportation and logistics cluster competitive advantages in the U.S. regions: A cross-sectional and spatio-temporal analysis, Research in Transportation Economics, 61: 25-36.
  15. Kim, E., B.H.S. Kim, and Ayoung Kim, 2011, Regional Potential Outputs and Outputs Gaps in Korea, Studies in Regional Science, 41(2): 407-418.
  16. Choi, M. S., Ayoung Kim, and E. Kim, 2008, The Spatial Economic Spillover Effects of Road Stock Using Production Function of Manufacturing Industry, Journal of the Korean Regional Development Association, 19(4): 139-150 (in Korean).
  17. Choi, M. S., D. H. Lee, and Ayoung Kim, 2008, The Effects of Regional Economic Integration-Agglomeration Economic Effects of the Manufacturing Industry in North-West of Gyeonggi Province, Journal of Economic Studies, 25(4): 183-203 (in Korean).
  18. Kim, Ayoung, S. D. Yun, and E. Kim, 2008, Analysis of Manufacturing Productivities of Integrated Economic Region in Korea Using Spatial Spillover Effect Model of Production Costs, the Korean Spatial Review, 59: 23-38 (in Korean).
  19. Kim, Ayoung and E. Kim, 2008, Productivity Analysis of the Manufacturing Industries in Seoul Metropolitan Area and its Adjacent Province, Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association, 23(2): 53-83 (in Korean).

Book Chapters

  1. Kim, E., Ayoung Kim, and I. Moon, 2022, Government Intervention in Real Estate Market: Is Tax Reform Effective in Seoul Housing Market?, In Theory and History in Regional Perspective, edited by M. Kawano, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp, and Y Higano, New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, Vol. 56: 221-243, Springer, Singapore.
  2. Kim, Ayoung and B.S. Waldorf, 2021, Retirement, Relocation, and Residential Choices, In Labor Market, Migration, and Mobility, edited by W. Cochrane, M.P. Cameron, and O. Alimi, New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, Vol. 45: 181-196, Springer, Singapore.
  3. Kim, Ayoung and B.S. Waldorf, 2019, Baby Boomers’ Paths into Retirement, In Population, Place, and Spatial Interaction, edited by R. Franklin, New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, Vol. 40: 225-247, Springer, Singapore.
  4. Kim, Ayoung and E. Kim, 2016, Spatial Agglomeration and Firm Performance in Korean Manufacturing Industry, 2012, In E. Kim and B.H.S. Kim (Eds.), Quantitative Regional Economics and Environmental Analysis for Sustainability in Korea, New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, Vol. 25: 89-104, Springer, Singapore.

Other Publications

  1. Regmi, S.*, Ayoung Kim, and D. Mills, 2024, Exploring Broadband Adoption in Mississippi, Mississippi State University Extension Service #P4036 (POD-9-24).
  2. Kim, Ayoung and D. Mills, 2024, Demographic Dynamics in Mississippi: Transition to an Aging Society, Mississippi State University Extension Service #P4000 (POD-05-24).
  3. Browne, J.*, Ayoung Kim, S.D. Yun, and B. Posadas, 2023, Economic Impacts of Bacterial Beach Closures on Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mississippi State University Extension Service #P3949 (POD-11-23).
  4. Boyce, M.*, Ayoung Kim, R. Smith, and A. Barefield, 2023, Mississippi Economic and Financial Well-Being: Patterns and Trends, Mississippi State University Extension Service #P3912 (POD-07-23).
  5. Dawadi, S.*, Ayoung Kim, and A. Barefield, 2023, Business Employment by Age and Size of Firms in Mississippi, Mississippi State University Extension Service #P3868 (POD-06-23).
  6. Ayoung Kim and B.S. Waldorf, 2023, The Index of Relative Rurality (IRR): US County Data for 2020, Version 1.0.0 [Data set], Zenodo.
  7. Meadowcroft, D., Ayoung Kim, A. Barefield, and J. Barnes, 2021, The State of Broadband Access in Mississippi, Mississippi State University Extension Service #P3653.
  8. Ayoung Kim and B. Smith, 2018, Economic Well-Being and Poverty Profiles: State Mississippi and 82 Counties in Mississippi, Extension Reports #P3267-1 to #P3267-83, Mississippi State University Extension Service.
  9. Waldorf, B. and Ayoung Kim, 2018, The Index of Relative Rurality (IRR): US County Data for 2000 and 2010 Version 1.0 [dataset], Purdue University Research Repository.
  10. Waldorf, B. and Ayoung Kim, 2015, Defining and Measuring Rurality in the US: From Typologies to Continuous Indices, Commissioned Paper for the Workshop on Rationalizing Rural Classifications, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC.