Chinhui Juhn is the Henry Graham Professor of Economics at the University of Houston. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. She previously held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. Recently, she served as a co-editor of the American Economic Review (2020-2023) and President of Society of Labor Economists (2024-2025).
Professor Juhn is a labor economist who studies U.S. wage inequality. Her most recent research is on the economics of gender. Her papers examine the role of job-related hours requirements in generating the gender wage gap.
Professor Juhn received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1991.