Andrew Taeho Kim
atkim.bsky.social
Andrew Taeho Kim
@atkim.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology @ University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
Postdoctoral Fellow @ Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. in Sociology @ University of Kansas

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Nursing as ethnic capital: perceptions of intergenerational niching among Filipino Americans - Brenda Gambol, Rebecca Karam, Andrew Taeho Kim, 2025 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Amidst all the posts about how NSF funds the basic science that (eventually) leads to marketable products, its role in funding data infrastructure is getting lost.

The GSS (1972), ANES (late 1960s), and PSID (1968) are rounding error in the discretionary budget but vital national resources.

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May 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The great debate over inequality's rise continues. At the blog, I summarize a Piketty, Saez, and Zucman response to an important critique of their work. They make a convincing case that inequality after taxes has, in fact, probably risen.

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Inequality Readers. Piketty Strikes Back
Has inequality grown over the last half century? The great debate continues!
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May 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Economists often use models that show firm discrimination cannot withstand market competition. The discriminating firm is unprofitable. But what happens when it’s consumers that have discriminatory preferences? In this case, the market doesn’t solve the problem. A 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w33547
Competition and Consumer Discrimination
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March 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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A 2023 analysis of the U.S. racial wealth divide shows that progress in reducing disparities has slowed over time.

Understanding this history is crucial for shaping more effective economic policy solutions for the future. 📊💡#BlackHistoryMonth

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Examining the history of the U.S. racial wealth divide shows stagnating progress on closing these disparities
New research finds that the U.S. racial wealth divide narrowed after the Civil War but then stagnated and even began to grow starting in the 1980s.
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February 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Extremely cool-looking postdoc with @aapidata.bsky.social. Based at UC Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and Asian American Research Center. Deadline 2/27!!https://aapidata.com/join-us/postdoctoral-scholar
Postdoctoral Scholar - AAPI Data
Postdoctoral Scholar POSITION OVERVIEW Salary range: The UC postdoc salary scales set the minimum pay determined by experience level at appointment. See the following table for the current salary scal...
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February 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Double disadvantage of Black, Hispanic, and Asian American women in earnings, revisited - Andrew Taeho Kim, ChangHwan Kim, 2025
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January 31, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020 - Andrew Taeho Kim, ChangHwan Kim, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Persistent Educational Advantages of Asian Immigrants’ Children, 1940 to 2015–2019 - ChangHwan Kim, Andrew Taeho Kim, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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It's Monday, so over at the blog I wrote about two great new papers that take a swing at what you can and can't do with sibling data.

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Two Great Reads - Monday - December 2
Siblings!
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December 2, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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Check in on your quantiles, people, they might not be (interpreted) alright.

Excellent paper by Nicolai Borgen, @andreashaupt.bsky.social, and @oyvindw.bsky.social

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November 18, 2024 at 6:48 AM