Yoo-Mi Chin

Professional Summary

Yoo-Mi Chin is an associate professor of Economics and an associate director of the Baylor Business Fellows program. She earned her PhD in Economics from Brown University. Before joining Baylor University in 2014, she served as an assistant professor of Economics at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. 

As an applied microeconomist, Chin addresses global issues such as intimate partner violence, HIV/AIDS, child labor, substance abuse and mental health. She is a fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and has published her work in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Development and others.

Education

• 2007 – PhD, Economics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
• 2001 – MA, Economics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
• 1997 – BA, German, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Courses

• ECO 1380 – Introduction to Economic Policy and Analysis
• ECO 2306 – Principles of Microeconomics

Research Interests

• Labor and Development
• Health
• Gender

Selected Publications

• Chin, Y. M., Cunningham, S., & Van, P. H. (2023). The Long-Term Effects of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Work. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 72(1), 329-360.
• Chin, Y. M., & Cunningham, S. (2019). Revisiting the effect of warrantless domestic violence arrest laws on intimate partner homicides. Journal of Public Economics, 179, 104072.
• Chin, Y. M., & Wilson, N. (2018). Disease risk and fertility: evidence from the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Journal of Population Economics, 31, 429-451.
• Chin, Y. M. (2013). Does HIV increase the risk of spousal violence in sub-Saharan Africa? Journal of Health Economics, 32(5), 997-1006.
• Chin, Y. M. (2012). Male backlash, bargaining, or exposure reduction?: women’s working status and physical spousal violence in India. Journal of Population Economics, 25, 175-200.