Dr. Eunjoo Choi

Dr. Eunjoo Choi's CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Public Policy, Management, and Analytics, University of Illinois at Chicago
• MA in Government, Georgetown University  
• BA in Political Science and English Literature, Sogang University (Seoul, S. Korea) 

Teaching and Research Interests

• Public Budgeting and Finance
• Policy Analysis 
• Program Evaluation 
• E-Government
• Research Methods

Courses Taught at MSU

• POL 673 Public Budgeting and Finance

Biography

Dr. Eunjoo Choi joined the faculty at Murray State University in the Fall of 2024, where she teaches courses in the Master of Public Administration program with a focus on Public Budgeting and Finance and Policy Analysis. Her research and teaching interests encompass various aspects of public policy and administration, including factors affecting Public Policy-Making, Financial Management Practices, Government Performance, E-Government, Policy Analysis, and Program Evaluation.

Her dissertation, “Making Budget Stabilization Funds Work: Indicators of BSF Rule Stringency and Their Impact on State Savings,” reflects her deep research interest and engagement with fiscal policy and the fiscal behavior of government. Recognized for her work in financial management, Dr. Choi received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2019 Midwest Public Affairs Conference (MPAC) for her paper titled “Does the Stringency of Rainy-Day Fund Rules Matter? Principal Component Regression Analyses of RDF Policies.”

She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Chicago, majoring in Public Budgeting and Financial Management with a minor in Urban Policy. She also holds an M.A. from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and a B.A. from Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea. Before joining MSU, Dr. Choi worked as a newspaper journalist in South Korea and served as Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Social Sciences at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Selected Publications 

• Choi, Eunjoo. 2022. Do Budget Stabilization Funds Invite Transparent Budget Reporting? Budget Stabilization Funds and Fiscal Behavior of States. Journal of Policy Studies 37(3), 65-82. 
• Choi, Eunjoo, and Yonghong Wu. 2024. Impact of Stringent Budget Stabilization Fund Rules on U.S. State Savings: Generalized Synthetic Control Method and Panel Data Analysis. Manuscript submitted for publication to Public Budgeting and Finance and currently under review. 

Conference Presentations

• Eunjoo Choi, Seeun Ryu, and Yonghong Wu (2023). The Impact of Fiscal Rules and Cutback Strategies on State Pension Funding in the U.S. Paper presented at the 35th annual conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM), October 26-28, 2023; Denver, CO.

   

• Ryu, Seeun and Eunjoo Choi (2023). Fiscal Slack, Rules, and Resilience. Paper presented at the 35th annual conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM), October 26-28, 2023; Denver, CO.

   

• Choi, Eunjoo. (2022). Fiscal Condition, State Savings, and Pension Funding in the U.S. States: A panel vector autoregressive analysis. Paper presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Fall Research Conference, Washington D.C.

   

• Choi, Eunjoo. (2022). Budget Stabilization Funds and Fiscal Behavior of State in Times of Fiscal Stress. Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, Chicago, IL.

   

• Choi, Eunjoo and Rebecca Hendrick. (2020). What Rainy Day Fund Policies Matter? Indicators of RDF Stringency and Their Impact on State Fiscal Performance. Paper presented at the Association for Budgeting & Financial Management (ABFM) Job-market showcase.

   

• Choi, Eunjoo. (2019). Does the Stringency of Rainy-Day Fund Rules Matter? Principal Component Regression Analyses of RDF Policies. Paper presented at the Midwest Public Affairs Conference (MPAC), Indianapolis, IN.

   

• Hendrick, Rebecca, Eunjoo Choi, and Mingyue Kan. (2019). The Structural Features of Rainy-Day Fund Enabling Legislation.” Paper presented at the 31st annual conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM), September 26-28, 2019; Washington, DC.