Kevin Shih

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Assistant Professor

  • Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute

Kevin Shih is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has received his PhD in Economics at UC Davis in 2015. He is a native of Queens, NY and received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College.

Shih has previously been awarded with a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2014-2015) by the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Bacon Family Fellowship (2010-2011). He is also an Institute of International Education research affiliate.

Kevin Shih's content

U.S. Job Numbers Show Immigration Opponents Wrong About The Economy
Coping with H-1B Shortages: Firm Performance and Mitigation Strategies
Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA
Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih, and Chad Sparber for Reason
Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih and Chad Sparber featured in Forbes
The Effects of Foreign Skilled Workers on Natives: Evidence from the H-1B Visa Lottery
Authors: Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih, and Chad Sparber. An ideal way to identify the consequences of foreign-born skilled labor flows would be to conduct an experiment in which foreign workers are randomly assigned to some “treated” local labor markets but not to other “untreated” markets.
STEM workers, H1B visas and productivity in US cities
Authors: Giovanni Peri, Chad Sparber, and Kevin Shih. In this paper, they identify the effect of STEM worker growth on the wages and employment of college and non-college educated native workers in 219 U.S. cities from 1990 to 2010.
California Agriculture: Water, Labor, and Immigration
This conference examines current issues in agriculture and farm labor. California agriculture and the farm workforce are changing.
The Impact of International Graduate Students on US Graduate Education
This paper accesses whether international students affect native enrollment at the graduate level.
Symposium on Interdisciplinary Frontiers in the Humanities and Arts
The symposium will include engaging presentations from each of the IFHA teams, an interactive poster session, and a keynote address by Professor Ann Stevens, Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Management & Director of the Center for Poverty Research.
CEMIR and UC Davis Workshop on Advances in Migration Research
The National Science Foundation awards a grant of $170,315 to University of California, Davis for support of the project “The Effect of H-1B Workers on the Innovation and Productivity in US Firms"
The grant will allow the team to continue their ground-breaking research on the topic of high skilled immigration and the US economy.
Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih and Chad Sparber contribute to the newly published issue of the Journal of Labor Economics focused on “US High-Skilled Immigration in the Global Economy”
The special issue of the Journal of Labor Economics, published on July, 1st, 2015 is all devoted to US High-Skilled Immigration in the Global Economy.
Team within the Migration Cluster is awarded a $170,000 NSF grant to study H1-B visas
The research project led by Peri and Shih and including researchers at UC Davis, Georgetown University, CUNY Queens and Colgate University was awarded funding for 170,000 $ by the Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program at the National Science Foundation.
"The Partnership for a New American Economy" released the study authored by Peri, Shih, and Sparber on the impact of H1B visa restrictions on US high tech sector, employment and wages
Wall Street Journal talks about research done by Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih, and Chad Sparber regarding the effect of foreign scientistis and engineers on productivity in US cities