Visiting Scholar: Gueyon Kim

Summary

Gueyon Kim visited the Stone Center from November 29 to December 9, 2023 to collaborate with Director Steven Durlauf on an ongoing project on the evolution of Black-White differences in intergenerational occupational mobility and inequality since the 1880s. The work employed data from 1850 to 2010 to understand how occupational inequality has changed from slavery to the modern era, with one important dimension involving the measurement of the changes in the intergenerational mobility process linking parents and children as the United States has moved across regimes, such as slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era, and the modern economy. This paper was featured by University of Chicago News in June 2024.

Relevant Publication

• Durlauf, Steven N. and Kim, Gueyon and Lee, Dohyeon and Song, Xi, The Evolution of Black-White Differences in Occupational Mobility Across Post-Civil War America (April 2024). NBER Working Paper No. w32370, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4810585