Visiting Scholars: Gueyon Kim & Xi Song

Summary

Gueyon Kim and Xi Song visited the Stone Center from June 13 to June 16, 2023 to collaborate with Faculty Director Steven Durlauf and Postdoctoral Scholars Kristina Butaeva and Neil Cholli on an ongoing project on the evolution of Black-White differences in intergenerational occupational mobility and inequality since the 1880s. The work employs 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.

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