Ronald Kwon

Associate Professor

Fields: Immigration, Attitudes, Political Economy, Quantitative Methods

Sycamore 288D

Office Hours: W 12-2 and by appointment (Spring 2025)

Education: Ph.D., 2018, University of California, Riverside

Research Interests: Dr. Ronald Kwon studies immigration, political attitudes, and how they shape and are shaped by institutions comparatively. His work has appeared in Ethnicities, Social Science Research, Population Research and Policy Review, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Socio-Economic Review, and International Migration Review.

Selected Publications:

Kwon, Ronald, and Roshan K. Pandian. "Multidimensionality in merit attitudes: The role of hard work, skills, and social connections in Europe." Social Science Research 122 (2024): 103056.

Kwon, Ronald, Phoebe Ho, and Mehr Mumtaz. "Perceptions of the Size of the Foreign-Born Population: Do Changes in Multicultural Policies Shape Beliefs?" Population Research and Policy Review 43, no. 4 (2024): 49.

Kwon, Ronald, William J. Scarborough, and Caroline Taylor. "Multidimensional attitudes: Homonationalist and selective tolerance toward homosexuality and Muslim migration across 21 countries." Ethnicities 23, no. 2 (2023): 331-366.

Scarborough, William J., Katherine Sobering, Ronald Kwon, and Mehr Mumtaz. "The costs of occupational gender segregation in high-tech growth and productivity across US local labor markets." Socio-Economic Review 21, no. 1 (2023): 643-664.