Ziming Zhu

LSE Fellow in Economic History @LSEEcHist | Research: Social Mobility in Victorian England (and @ManUtd’s next transfer target)

[Ziming Zhu @ZimingZhu7]

Pleased to announce that my paper “Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851-1911” is now available online in FirstView at the Journal of Economic History website. Abstract in thread.

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https://t.co/EQSwwzNIJ4

[Ziming Zhu @ZimingZhu7]

Any comments are greatly appreciated at: [email protected]

[Ziming Zhu @ZimingZhu7]

Victorian England was therefore a society of limited social mobility. The long-run evolution and international comparisons of social mobility in England are discussed. (4/4)

[Ziming Zhu @ZimingZhu7]

Instrumenting one measure of the father’s outcome with a second measure of the father’s outcome raises the intergenerational elasticities (β) of occupational status from 0.4 to 0.6–0.7. (3/4)

[Ziming Zhu @ZimingZhu7]

Pleased to announce that my paper “Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851-1911” is now available online in FirstView at the Journal of Economic History website. Abstract in thread.

@EconHistAssoc @LSEEcHist

https://t.co/EQSwwzNIJ4

[Ziming Zhu @ZimingZhu7]

I find that conventional estimates of intergenerational elasticities are attenuated by classical measurement error and severely underestimate the extent of father-son association in socioeconomic status. (2/4)

[Ziming Zhu @ZimingZhu7]

This paper uses a new linked sample constructed from full-count census data of 1851–1911 to revise estimates of intergenerational occupational mobility in England. (1/4)

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

The (extended) @LSEEcHist family at this year's @EcHistSoc Annual Conference in Newcastle

Many thanks to @EcHistSoc and @NorthumbriaUni for organising this superb conference!

[Ziming Zhu @ZimingZhu7]

Had a blast presenting my poster on the geography of intergenerational mobility in Victorian England, which shows a north-south divide in occupational mobility, yesterday evening to many brilliant economists at @RES2024 Annual Conference.

Photo credit: @Eoin2319

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

Many congratulations to our colleague Professor @Chris__Minns (@LSEEcHist) who has been made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences! Fellows of the Academy are elected for their substantial contributions to social sciences.

[hillaryvipond @hillaryvipond]

Nice to see this out as a working paper. A first run at what will be a lifelong project: can we learn lessons from history? Under what circumstances? @benmschneider @LSEEcHist #EconTwitter #econhist

[Ziming Zhu @ZimingZhu7]

Pleasure to present my paper on intergenerational mobility in England, 1851-1911 at World Clio in Dublin, cheered on by the quintessential Irish weather.
#Clio23 #EconomicHistory @LSEEcHist @ClioSociety @ceph_ie

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

@vperezsanchez1, @ZimingZhu7, @NickArtFitz and Sheila Pugh discussed their research on monetary policy, occupational mobility, social inequality and investment behaviour at the New Researcher Poster Session on 1 April. (3/5)

[Ziming Zhu @ZimingZhu7]

Pleased to say that my working paper on intergenerational mobility in England, 1851-1911 is now available on https://t.co/IDPXr1jc6i.

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

In a recent seminar 📽📊, our PhD student @vperezsanchez1 presented his research on Castille’s 17th-c. monetary policy, specifically its decision — when the kingdom was the largest recipient and minter of American silver 🪙— to issue a low-value copper coin: The Vellon. (🧵1/5)

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

What are the limitations of traditional estimates of intergenerational social mobility? In today’s graduate seminar, @ZimingZhu7 (@LSEEcHist) presented his revised estimate of intergenerational occupation mobility in Victorian England. (🧵1/6)