Why are China's poorer provinces more unequal? @butaevak.bsky.social & Albert Park find schooling there is scarcer, more unevenly spread, and pays off more—educational gaps are associated with income gaps. Read the paper, forthcoming in the Journal of Comparative Economics: bit.ly/4iAJWSC

Excited to share a new working paper with @sndurlauf and Alexander Shapoval! We study six generations of families in Liaoning province to see how the footprints of major crises in the late Qing dynasty can be traced in intergenerational mobility dynamics. #EconJobMarket

UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility@ucstonecenter.bsky.social · last mo.

In the last 130 years of China’s Qing Dynasty, aggregate intergenerational mobility increased. A working paper from our postdoc and job market candidate @butaevak.bsky.social, with @durlauf.bsky.social & Alexander Shapoval, reveals a more complicated story. Keep reading🧵⬇️ bit.ly/3VAXLsE

Proud to share that our postdoctoral scholar @butaevak.bsky.social is on the Economics job market this year! 🎉 Read her paper linked below, and stay tuned for more on her research in the coming weeks!

Kristina Butaeva@butaevak.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm on the Econ job market this year! My job market paper takes up a central question in the inequality literature: has intergenerational mobility declined in the U.S. alongside rising inequality since the 1970s? Read the full paper here: www.nber.org/papers/w34800 #Economics #EconJobMarket

I'm on the Econ job market this year! My job market paper takes up a central question in the inequality literature: has intergenerational mobility declined in the U.S. alongside rising inequality since the 1970s? Read the full paper here: www.nber.org/papers/w34800 #Economics #EconJobMarket

For National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we’re highlighting @butaevak.bsky.social and Lucienne Disch, whose research and intellectual contributions are an important part of what we do. Their scholarship helps shape the questions we ask and the knowledge we produce here at the Stone Center.

Using a new method for measuring an income distribution from survey data, research by Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar @butaevak.bsky.social obtains new estimates of income inequality in China which are robust to top-tail outliers. Read more: bit.ly/3Q254UN

Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar @butaevak.bsky.social explores intergenerational mobility in imperial China. Her findings trace how major historical crises impacted mobility and inequality. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/3GqBaHu

New from the Stone Center! How do we compare intergenerational mobility in countries undergoing structural economic shifts to those that aren’t? Our affiliates take on this complex question in their latest paper.

NBER@nber.org · last yr.

Measuring intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in China and Russia during the transition to market economies, using new Markov chain methods, from Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, and Albert Park https://www.nber.org/papers/w34124

Inter-province income/education inequality in China isn’t new; intra-province inequality might be. @butaevak.bsky.social & Park show that poorer provinces have higher inequality because of higher educational inequality, higher returns to schooling & lower average attainment. Read now→ bit.ly/3Vhf8Lz