Aimee Chin

"Language Skills and Earnings: Evidence from Childhood Immigrants" (with Hoyt Bleakley, UCSD; Review of Economics and Statistics 86 (May 2004), 481-496) [pre-publication version]

"Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Japanese-American Internment During World War II on Working-Age Male Internees" (Journal of Labor Economics 23 (July 2005), 491-525) [pre-publication version]

"Can Redistributing Teachers Across Schools Raise Educational Attainment?  Evidence from Operation Blackboard in India"  (Journal of Development Economics 78 (December 2005), 384-405) [pre-publication version]

"Technical Change and the Demand for Skills during the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1891-1912" (with Chinhui Juhn, UH and Peter Thompson, Florida International University; Review of Economics and Statistics 88 (August 2006), 572-578) [pre-publication version] [NBER Working Paper No. 10728 is an early version]

"Is Spanish-only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?" (with Joshua Angrist, MIT and Ricardo Godoy, Brandeis University; Journal of Development Economics 85 (February 2008), 105-128) [pre-publication version]

"What Holds Back the Second Generation? The Intergenerational Transmission of Language Human Capital Among Immigrants" (with Hoyt Bleakley, Chicago GSB; Journal of Human Resources 43 (Spring 2008), 267-298) [pre-publication version] [associated appendix]  This research was featured in a New York Times column on June 22, 2006.

"Age at Arrival, English Proficiency, and Social Assimilation among U.S. Immigrants" (with Hoyt Bleakley, Chicago Booth; American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (January 2010), 165-192) [pre-publication version] [associated slides]

"Effects of English Proficiency among Childhood Immigrants: Are Hispanics Different?" (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dalhousie University and Hoyt Bleakley, Chicago Booth; chapter in Latinos and the Economy) [pre-publication version]

"Does Reducing College Costs Improve Educational Outcomes for Undocumented Immigrants? Evidence from State Laws Permitting Undocumented Immigrants to Pay In-state Tuition at State Colleges and Universities"  (with Chinhui Juhn, UH; chapter in Latinos and the Economy) [pre-publication version]   This research was featured in a Chronicle of Higher Education article on May 4, 2010.

"The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India"  (with Nishith Prakash, Cornell University; Journal of Development Economics 96 (November 2011), 265–277) [pre-publication version]  We have a summary of it on VoxEU. 

"The Returns to English-Language Skills in India" (with Mehtabul Azam, World Bank and Nishith Prakash, University of Connecticut; Economic Development and Cultural Change 61 (January 2013), 335-367) [pre-publication version]  We have a summary of it on VoxEU.