Welcome to the Homepage of Seo-Young Cho!

I am currently a German Federal Government-sponsored post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Development and Security at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and guest lecturer in Economics at Humbold University Berlin.

My research fields include development, gender, and institutional economics, with a particular focus of human trafficking, organized crimes, gender-based violence, gender equality, and migration.

I am the author of the "3P" Anti-trafficking Policy Index evaluating anti-trafficking policy in its three prime dimensions - prevention, protection, and prosecution. The index covers up to 183 countries for the 2000-2010 period. This project has been financed by the EU during the period of 2010-2012.

I received my doctorate in Economics at Georg-August University of Goettingen in Germany and master in Public Affairs at Columbia University in the U.S.        For my CV, please click here. 

News: "3P" Anti-trafficking Policy Index is now available for the year of 2010 (see  "Human Trafficking" section to dowload the data).

New publication: Compliance with the Anti-trafficking Protocol (with Krishna C. Vadlamannati), 2012, European Journal of Political Economy  28 (2012), pp. 249-265