Seungyeon Jung

Her research examines how institutional policies reshape educational environments, and how families across class positions respond to those changes. Beyond a policy's effect itself, she asks whom it was built for: which groups it reaches, which it quietly passes over, and how those differences accumulate into segregation across schools and neighborhoods. Her broader aim is to explain why reforms designed with good intentions produce uneven results, and to identify the design choices that determine who benefits. She approaches these questions with large-scale administrative data and quantitative methods for causal inference. Her current project examines how charter school entry and closure reshape public school district expenditures, and what those shifts mean for the students who remain in traditional public schools.

Before coming to Brown, she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in sociology in South Korea. In her free time, she likes to grab coffee, read books, and play tennis.