A Hsin
Biographic Data
| ID | 48250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Hsin |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hsin |
| SIGNATURE | HSIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3128-7860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Heterogeneous Effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) on Undocumented College Students’ Educational Outcomes
We investigate why prior studies examining the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on undocumented youth's college outcomes in the United States have yielded mixed findings. We draw on unique administrative data from the City University of New York at the time of DACA's implementation and utilize difference-in-difference estimation to examine DACA's effects on undocumented students’ college GPA and interruptions to their …
Facilitators and barriers in the college pathways of working-class immigrant-origin youth of color in New York City
A Flawed Policy Metaphor: An Empirical Test of Earlier Academic Promise and Later STEM Outcomes
Purpose: Although the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline has been the most common policy framework to understand why ethnoracial disparities are some of the most glaring, few studies have empirically assessed whether the relationship between early academic preparation, such as for standardized tests, grades, and coursework, and later outcomes is the same across racial/ethnic groups. Research Methods/Approach: This study us…
Stratified Entry into Illegality: How Immigration Policy Shapes Being Undocumented
Research shows that legal status is a critical axis of stratification in the United States but is less clear about the variably permeable boundaries around illegality and the systematic ways in which migrants are channeled into and out of the liminal states of illegality. Drawing on analysis of 105 interviews with a diverse group of undocumented or formerly undocumented immigrant young adults in New York City collected in 2018–19, we introduce th…
Managing Illegality on Campus: Undocumented Mismatch Between Students and Staff
Contributing to the literature on the institutional experiences of undocumented youth, this article by Holly E. Reed, Sofya Aptekar, and Amy Hsin explores undocumented and “DACAmented” students’ experiences managing their illegality on campus and how college staff and faculty manage that illegality while organizing programs and support. Their analysis of in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with more than one hundred undocumented college stu…
The Violence of Asylum: The Case of Undocumented Chinese Migration to the United States
A sizable portion of the undocumented population in the US is Chinese but they are an understudied group. We analyze secondary literature and policies to understand undocumented Chinese immigration in its historical and contemporary contexts and draw on interviews with undocumented migrants, community organizers, social workers, and others working in the Chinese community in New York City, as well as participant observation of community events, t…
Local Policing and the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented College Students
A growing literature examines the impact of immigration and law enforcement on undocumented immigrants and their communities, but these studies are limited by the lack of reliable data on documentation status and their focus on federal immigration enforcement. Leveraging administrative student data from the City University of New York (CUNY) that reliably identify about 13,000 undocumented students among more than 350,000 first-year students, thi…
The higher educational trajectories of undocumented youth in New York City
Despite growth in the number of Latino students enrolled in U.S. colleges, foreign-born Latinos are less likely than both native-born Latinos and other immigrant groups to graduate. However, it is difficult to understand the lower educational attainment of Latino immigrants without considering variation in enrollment by legal status. After all, until recently, undocumented immigrants have been blocked from higher education in the United States. D…
The Academic Performance of Undocumented Students in Higher Education in the United States
Our understanding of the sources of educational inequality for the estimated 250,000 undocumented immigrant college students in the United States is limited by poor data. We use student administrative data from a large public university, which accurately identify legal status and include pre-enrollment characteristics, to determine the effect of legal status on GPA and graduation. We find that undocumented students are hyper-selected relative to …
Hegemonic Gender Norms and the Gender Gap in Achievement: The Case of Asian Americans
Many argue that hegemonic gender norms depress boys' performance and account for the gender gap in achievement. I describe differences in the emergence of the gender gap in academic achievement between white and Asian American youth and explore how the immigrant experience and cultural differences in gender expectations might account for observed differences. For white students, boys are already underperforming girls in kindergarten, with the mal…
The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration policy to affect undocumented immigrants in the United States in decades and offers eligible undocumented youth temporary relief from deportation as well as renewable work permits. Although DACA has improved the economic conditions and mental health of undocumented immigrants, we do not know how DACA improves the social mobility of undocumented immigrants through i…
Saving Face: The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth
Life-course changes in the mediation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for parental effects on children's academic achievement
How selective migration enables socioeconomic mobility
Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's new book, The Asian American Achievement Paradox, revives Asian American scholarship from a period of relative stagnation and elevates the discussion from the morass of cultural essentialism. Its major contributions are to extensively articulate: (1) how much cultural explanations are actually class-based explanations and (2) how selective migration creates the conditions that promote social mobility. This book resolve…
Asian children's verbal development: A comparison of the United States and Australia
Explaining Asian Americans’ academic advantage over whites
Significance We find that the Asian-American educational advantage over whites is attributable mainly to Asian students exerting greater academic effort and not to advantages in tested cognitive abilities or socio-demographics. We test explanations for the Asian–white gap in academic effort and find that the gap can be further attributed to ( i ) cultural differences in beliefs regarding the connection between effort and achievement and ( ii ) im…
When Does Time Matter? Maternal Employment, Children’s Time With Parents, and Child Development
This study tests the two assumptions underlying popularly held notions that maternal employment negatively affects children because it reduces time spent with parents: (1) that maternal employment reduces children’s time with parents, and (2) that time with parents affects child outcomes. We analyze children’s time-diary data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and use child fixed-effects and IV estimations…
Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight and Differential Parental Treatment
Time diaries of sibling pairs from the PSID-CDS are used to determine whether maternal time investments compensate for or reinforce birth-weight differences among children. The findings demonstrate that the direction and degree of differential treatment vary by mother’s education. Less-educated mothers devote more total time and more educationally oriented time to heavier-birth-weight children, whereas better-educated mothers devote more total an…
Parent's Time with Children: Does Time Matter for Children's Cognitive Achievement
Children's Time Use: Labor Divisions and Schooling in Indonesia
Data from the Worker and Iron Status Evaluation are used to examine gendered patterns in children's time in market and nonmarket work, schooling, and leisure in Indonesia (N= 2,929). Boys spend more time in market work; girls spend more time in nonmarket work. Work responsibilities increase with age as well as gender differentials in children's time use. By age 18, girls spend nearly 1 more hour per day working and enjoy significantly less leisur…
When Does Time Matter? Maternal Employment, Children’s Time With Parents, and Child Development
This study tests the two assumptions underlying popularly held notions that maternal employment negatively affects children because it reduces time spent with parents: (1) that maternal employment reduces children’s time with parents, and (2) that time with parents affects child outcomes. We analyze children’s time-diary data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and use child fixed-effects and IV estimations…
Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight and Differential Parental Treatment
Time diaries of sibling pairs from the PSID-CDS are used to determine whether maternal time investments compensate for or reinforce birth-weight differences among children. The findings demonstrate that the direction and degree of differential treatment vary by mother’s education. Less-educated mothers devote more total time and more educationally oriented time to heavier-birth-weight children, whereas better-educated mothers devote more total an…
The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration policy to affect undocumented immigrants in the United States in decades and offers eligible undocumented youth temporary relief from deportation as well as renewable work permits. Although DACA has improved the economic conditions and mental health of undocumented immigrants, we do not know how DACA improves the social mobility of undocumented immigrants through i…
Parent's Time with Children: Does Time Matter for Children's Cognitive Achievement
Life-course changes in the mediation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for parental effects on children's academic achievement
How selective migration enables socioeconomic mobility
Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's new book, The Asian American Achievement Paradox, revives Asian American scholarship from a period of relative stagnation and elevates the discussion from the morass of cultural essentialism. Its major contributions are to extensively articulate: (1) how much cultural explanations are actually class-based explanations and (2) how selective migration creates the conditions that promote social mobility. This book resolve…
The higher educational trajectories of undocumented youth in New York City
Despite growth in the number of Latino students enrolled in U.S. colleges, foreign-born Latinos are less likely than both native-born Latinos and other immigrant groups to graduate. However, it is difficult to understand the lower educational attainment of Latino immigrants without considering variation in enrollment by legal status. After all, until recently, undocumented immigrants have been blocked from higher education in the United States. D…
Hegemonic Gender Norms and the Gender Gap in Achievement: The Case of Asian Americans
Many argue that hegemonic gender norms depress boys' performance and account for the gender gap in achievement. I describe differences in the emergence of the gender gap in academic achievement between white and Asian American youth and explore how the immigrant experience and cultural differences in gender expectations might account for observed differences. For white students, boys are already underperforming girls in kindergarten, with the mal…
The Academic Performance of Undocumented Students in Higher Education in the United States
Our understanding of the sources of educational inequality for the estimated 250,000 undocumented immigrant college students in the United States is limited by poor data. We use student administrative data from a large public university, which accurately identify legal status and include pre-enrollment characteristics, to determine the effect of legal status on GPA and graduation. We find that undocumented students are hyper-selected relative to …
Asian children's verbal development: A comparison of the United States and Australia
Children's Time Use: Labor Divisions and Schooling in Indonesia
Data from the Worker and Iron Status Evaluation are used to examine gendered patterns in children's time in market and nonmarket work, schooling, and leisure in Indonesia (N= 2,929). Boys spend more time in market work; girls spend more time in nonmarket work. Work responsibilities increase with age as well as gender differentials in children's time use. By age 18, girls spend nearly 1 more hour per day working and enjoy significantly less leisur…
Local Policing and the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented College Students
A growing literature examines the impact of immigration and law enforcement on undocumented immigrants and their communities, but these studies are limited by the lack of reliable data on documentation status and their focus on federal immigration enforcement. Leveraging administrative student data from the City University of New York (CUNY) that reliably identify about 13,000 undocumented students among more than 350,000 first-year students, thi…
Children's Time Use: Labor Divisions and Schooling in Indonesia
Data from the Worker and Iron Status Evaluation are used to examine gendered patterns in children's time in market and nonmarket work, schooling, and leisure in Indonesia (N= 2,929). Boys spend more time in market work; girls spend more time in nonmarket work. Work responsibilities increase with age as well as gender differentials in children's time use. By age 18, girls spend nearly 1 more hour per day working and enjoy significantly less leisur…
Parent's Time with Children: Does Time Matter for Children's Cognitive Achievement
Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight and Differential Parental Treatment
Time diaries of sibling pairs from the PSID-CDS are used to determine whether maternal time investments compensate for or reinforce birth-weight differences among children. The findings demonstrate that the direction and degree of differential treatment vary by mother’s education. Less-educated mothers devote more total time and more educationally oriented time to heavier-birth-weight children, whereas better-educated mothers devote more total an…
Explaining Asian Americans’ academic advantage over whites
Significance We find that the Asian-American educational advantage over whites is attributable mainly to Asian students exerting greater academic effort and not to advantages in tested cognitive abilities or socio-demographics. We test explanations for the Asian–white gap in academic effort and find that the gap can be further attributed to ( i ) cultural differences in beliefs regarding the connection between effort and achievement and ( ii ) im…
When Does Time Matter? Maternal Employment, Children’s Time With Parents, and Child Development
This study tests the two assumptions underlying popularly held notions that maternal employment negatively affects children because it reduces time spent with parents: (1) that maternal employment reduces children’s time with parents, and (2) that time with parents affects child outcomes. We analyze children’s time-diary data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and use child fixed-effects and IV estimations…
Asian children's verbal development: A comparison of the United States and Australia
How selective migration enables socioeconomic mobility
Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's new book, The Asian American Achievement Paradox, revives Asian American scholarship from a period of relative stagnation and elevates the discussion from the morass of cultural essentialism. Its major contributions are to extensively articulate: (1) how much cultural explanations are actually class-based explanations and (2) how selective migration creates the conditions that promote social mobility. This book resolve…
Life-course changes in the mediation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for parental effects on children's academic achievement
Hegemonic Gender Norms and the Gender Gap in Achievement: The Case of Asian Americans
Many argue that hegemonic gender norms depress boys' performance and account for the gender gap in achievement. I describe differences in the emergence of the gender gap in academic achievement between white and Asian American youth and explore how the immigrant experience and cultural differences in gender expectations might account for observed differences. For white students, boys are already underperforming girls in kindergarten, with the mal…
The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration policy to affect undocumented immigrants in the United States in decades and offers eligible undocumented youth temporary relief from deportation as well as renewable work permits. Although DACA has improved the economic conditions and mental health of undocumented immigrants, we do not know how DACA improves the social mobility of undocumented immigrants through i…
Saving Face: The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth
The Academic Performance of Undocumented Students in Higher Education in the United States
Our understanding of the sources of educational inequality for the estimated 250,000 undocumented immigrant college students in the United States is limited by poor data. We use student administrative data from a large public university, which accurately identify legal status and include pre-enrollment characteristics, to determine the effect of legal status on GPA and graduation. We find that undocumented students are hyper-selected relative to …
The higher educational trajectories of undocumented youth in New York City
Despite growth in the number of Latino students enrolled in U.S. colleges, foreign-born Latinos are less likely than both native-born Latinos and other immigrant groups to graduate. However, it is difficult to understand the lower educational attainment of Latino immigrants without considering variation in enrollment by legal status. After all, until recently, undocumented immigrants have been blocked from higher education in the United States. D…
Managing Illegality on Campus: Undocumented Mismatch Between Students and Staff
Contributing to the literature on the institutional experiences of undocumented youth, this article by Holly E. Reed, Sofya Aptekar, and Amy Hsin explores undocumented and “DACAmented” students’ experiences managing their illegality on campus and how college staff and faculty manage that illegality while organizing programs and support. Their analysis of in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with more than one hundred undocumented college stu…
The Violence of Asylum: The Case of Undocumented Chinese Migration to the United States
A sizable portion of the undocumented population in the US is Chinese but they are an understudied group. We analyze secondary literature and policies to understand undocumented Chinese immigration in its historical and contemporary contexts and draw on interviews with undocumented migrants, community organizers, social workers, and others working in the Chinese community in New York City, as well as participant observation of community events, t…
Local Policing and the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented College Students
A growing literature examines the impact of immigration and law enforcement on undocumented immigrants and their communities, but these studies are limited by the lack of reliable data on documentation status and their focus on federal immigration enforcement. Leveraging administrative student data from the City University of New York (CUNY) that reliably identify about 13,000 undocumented students among more than 350,000 first-year students, thi…
Stratified Entry into Illegality: How Immigration Policy Shapes Being Undocumented
Research shows that legal status is a critical axis of stratification in the United States but is less clear about the variably permeable boundaries around illegality and the systematic ways in which migrants are channeled into and out of the liminal states of illegality. Drawing on analysis of 105 interviews with a diverse group of undocumented or formerly undocumented immigrant young adults in New York City collected in 2018–19, we introduce th…
Facilitators and barriers in the college pathways of working-class immigrant-origin youth of color in New York City
A Flawed Policy Metaphor: An Empirical Test of Earlier Academic Promise and Later STEM Outcomes
Purpose: Although the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline has been the most common policy framework to understand why ethnoracial disparities are some of the most glaring, few studies have empirically assessed whether the relationship between early academic preparation, such as for standardized tests, grades, and coursework, and later outcomes is the same across racial/ethnic groups. Research Methods/Approach: This study us…
Heterogeneous Effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) on Undocumented College Students’ Educational Outcomes
We investigate why prior studies examining the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on undocumented youth's college outcomes in the United States have yielded mixed findings. We draw on unique administrative data from the City University of New York at the time of DACA's implementation and utilize difference-in-difference estimation to examine DACA's effects on undocumented students’ college GPA and interruptions to their …
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Immigration (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works)