News

Housing costs have exacerbated income equality in Germany

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and co-authors finds that changes in housing expenditures dramatically exacerbated the rise in income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s. The research was covered on the German press.

Press Release

Immigrant and disadvantaged children benefit most from early childcare

Attending universal childcare from age three significantly improves the school readiness of children from immigrant and disadvantaged family backgrounds.

The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

BBC 2

"I was quite prepared... to use the cover of the statistician's analysis": Former home secretary David Blunkett and Prof Dustmann on the 2003 report on EU accession

Brexit

BBC Three Counties

Christian Dustmann discussing Theresa May's comments on EU workers 'jumping the queue' on BBC Three Counties.

External Research Fellow

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Email: achin@uh.edu

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Aimee Chin

Aimee Chin is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Houston, and a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER's Economics of Education Program. She received her A.B. from Harvard University in 1994 and her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2001. Professor Chin’s research is in the fields of labor and development economics, focusing on the effects of human capital investments. She has examined the role of English-language skills in the economic and social assimilation of U.S. immigrants, the effects of various educational policies in the U.S., Puerto Rico and India, and the connection between technical change and earnings inequality. She is currently working on several projects on U.S. immigrants, and on affirmative action in India.

Aimee Chin joined CReAM as an external fellow in July 2010.