Christina A. Houseworth, Ph.D.

Christina A. Houseworth, Ph.D.
370 Lexington Ave, Suite 1802
New York, NY 10017

EDUCATION

B.A. Economics          –          Southern Illinois University 2001
M.S. Economics          –          University of Illinois at Chicago 2003
Ph.D. Economics        –          University of Illinois at Chicago 2007

EXPERIENCE

2007 – present
Senior Economist- Litigation Analytics, Inc.

2002 – 2007
Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

2006
Adjunct Professor, Loyola University

PUBLICATIONS

“Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating” (with Barry R. Chiswick). IZA Discussion Paper Series No. 3740, September 2008.

WORKING PAPERS

"Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating” (with Barry R. Chiswick), revise and resubmit Review of Economics of the Household

“Human Capital and Interracial Marriage in the United States”

“The Reverse Wage Gap: Why Educated White and Black Women are Different” (with Jonathan Fisher)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

American Economic Association
Midwest Economic Association
Illinois Economic Association
Society of Labor Economists
Southern Economic Association

Presented at the Illinois Economic Association Meetings 2006: "Determinants of Ethnic Intermarriage Among Immigrants to the United States"

Presented at the Third Migrant Ethnicity Meeting in 2007: "Determinants of Ethnic Intermarriage Among Immigrants to the United States"

Presented at the Society of Labor Economists Meetings 2008: "Ethnic Intermarriage Among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating"

Presented at the Midwest Economic Association Meetings 2008: "Human Capital and Interracial Marriage in the United States"

Presented at the Society of Labor Economists Meetings 2009: "The Reverse Wage Gap among Educated White and Black Women"

Presented at the Southern Economic Associate Meetings 2009: "Ethnic Intermarriage Among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating"

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH INTERESTS

Joint work with Barry Chiswick, “Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating”, is an IZA discussion paper and in revise and resubmit status with the Review of Economics of the Household. Joint work with Jonathan Fisher, “The Reverse Wage Gap among Educated White and Black Women”, is a paper under review at the Industrial Labor Relations Review. We use the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, the Current Population Survey and the American Community Survey to examine the wage differential among black and white women. I am also working on a paper entitled “Human Capital and Interracial Marriage in the United States”. The interracial marriage decisions of the native born in the US are examined with 2000 US Census data using a marginal cost/marginal benefit model of racial compatibility. The focus of the paper is on mobility, veteran status and education and how these three forms of human capital affect interracial marriage.

There are few of research projects in their beginning stages. First, Barry Chiswick and I are beginning to examine the determinants of post migration martial dissolution among immigrants. Second, Jonathan Fisher and I have obtained application data for nursing programs and will attempt to attribute some of the favorable racial wage gap discussed in our paper, “The Reverse Wage Gap among Educated White and Black Women” to selection. We hypothesize that black applicants to nursing programs are of a higher quality. We hope to create a proxy variable for otherwise unmeasured quality, and examine the racial wage gap further. Finally, I have begun to examine how the allocation of household services between single, married, divorced and same sex couples differs. The American Time Use Survey matched with the Current Population Survey provides information on the individual’s earnings, occupation, characteristics of the partner, and household services.