Kristina

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

[NBER @nberpubs]

New Markov chain methods reveal how, for the US, the last half century is associated with decreased mobility for the upper and lower classes, and greater mobility for the middle, from Geoffrey Wodtke, Weiqi Wang, @Butaeva_K, and @sndurlauf https://t.co/aPEBeYRPSk

[Steven N. Durlauf @sndurlauf]

I am delighted to release this paper with coauthors extraordinaire Kristina Butaeva @Butaeva_K, Weiqi Wang, and Geoffrey Wodtke

Before discussing the substance of the paper, I want to highlight two of my coauthors. (Geoff Wodtke is a star sociologist and needs no introduction!)

Kristina Butaeva is a wonderful postdoc at the UChicago Stone Center, with papers on inequality and mobility that range from the US to Russia to China. She makes any social science department or research center deeper and more interesting.

Weiqi Wang is a predoc at the Center, developing great work on college admissions in China. Every Economics PhD program in the world should be competing to attract her when she applies.

[Becker Friedman Institute for Economics @BeckerFriedman]

China’s transition saw higher educational mobility from structural shifts. Russia shows stronger steady-state mobility once dynamics are adjusted. Both share similar occupational patterns. New research by Butaeva, Chen, @sndurlauf & Park: https://t.co/WcRmdBUjIQ

[Steven N. Durlauf @sndurlauf]

Delighted to release with paper with Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, and Albert Park. Many of the Markov chain ideas we developed are inspired by mobility ideas that originate in sociology.