Kristina Butaeva
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility
Kristina Butaeva is a postdoctoral scholar at the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in Social Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2021. She also holds a Candidate of Science degree in Economics from the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Before joining Harris, Kristina was a postdoctoral fellow at the HKUST Greater Eurasia Research Center (GEAR, Hong Kong), a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions at the New Economic School (NES CSDSI, Moscow), and worked as a research fellow at the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA, Madison) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on income inequality, intergenerational mobility, and social diversity.
