Hyuk “Harry” Son is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies. His research fields are Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Education Economics, with a particular focus on human capital accumulation and risk management in low-income settings. Using field experiments and large-scale survey data, his work examines how households respond to economic and environmental shocks and how these responses shape children’s education and labor outcomes—bridging human capital and risk management to inform more effective and equitable development policies.