Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
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E-mail: achin[at]uh[dot]edu
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Office: McElhinney Hall, Room 221B
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Phone: (713) 743-3761
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Fax: (713) 743-3798
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Postal mail address: 204 McElhinney Hall / Houston, TX 77204-5019 / USA
Research
My research is in the fields of labor and development. Selected papers:
- "Language Skills and
Earnings: Evidence from Childhood Immigrants" (with Hoyt
Bleakley, UCSD; Review of Economics and Statistics 86 (May 2004),
481-496) **click here for PDF
file of an older 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) **click here for PDF file of an older version**
- "Can Redistributing
Teachers Across Schools Raise Educational Attainment? Evidence from Operation Blackboard in
India" (Journal of Development Economics 78 (December 2005), 384-405) **click here for PDF file of an older 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)
**click here for PDF file of an older version**;
an early version is: NBER Working Paper
No. 10728
- "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) **click here for PDF file of an older 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)
**click here for PDF file of an older version**;
**click here for the associated appendix**;
an early version is: CCIS Working Paper No. 104, October 2004. 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 GSB; forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics)
**click here for PDF file of an older version**;
an earlier version is: CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 13/09.
- "Effects of English Proficiency among Childhood Immigrants: Are Hispanics Different?" (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, UH and Hoyt Bleakley, Chicago GSB)
**current 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) **click here for PDF file of an early version**
- "The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India" (with Nishith Prakash, Ohio University) **current version**
Teaching
University of Houston-Rice University Empirical Microeconomics Seminar Series
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