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Santiago Pérez
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Associate Professor of Economics at @ucdavis and Research Associate at @nberpubs. 🇦🇷 in 🇺🇸
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📣 The UC Davis Economics Department is thrilled to announce our 2025-2026 Economics Job Market Candidates! Learn more about their research below ⬇️
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al https://www.nber.org/papers/w33558
March 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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New edition of the Summer School on the "Economics of Immigration" happening again this year in Mexico City July 21-24. More info here: globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/summer_school3
March 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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New paper studying the intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries. This paper is the result of an international collaboration of 15 country teams and a total of 38(!) coauthors. Comments welcome!
fjaellegaard.bsky.social Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen @fjaellegaard.bsky.social · Feb 21
1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
February 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
February 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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During Prohibition when many men lost their jobs, daughters increased their labor supply and delayed marriage and childbearing likely in an effort to compensate for lost wages, from Anna Aizer, Gabrielle Grafton, and Santiago Pérez https://www.nber.org/papers/w33346
January 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Daughters living at home were the safety net when Dads making booze lost jobs during Prohibition www.nber.org/papers/w3334...
Daughters as Safety Net? Family Responses to Parental Employment Shocks: Evidence from Alcohol Prohibition
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January 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Love seeing two new @nberpubs.bsky.social WPs out today that use the Census Tree!

"Daughters as Safety Net...Evidence from Alcohol Prohibition" by Aizer, Grafton, & Pérez

"The Gilded Age & Beyond: The Persistence of Elite Wealth in American History" by Kalsi & @econzach.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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academics from poorer backgrounds are:
-severely underrepresented
-more likely to not publish
-have outstanding publication records
-introduce more novel scientific concepts, but less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations & awards
www.nber.org/papers/w33289
Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia
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December 24, 2024 at 10:31 AM
seperez84.bsky.social
Had a great time presenting at WFU 🙌
wfueconomics.bsky.social Wake Forest Department of Economics @wfueconomics.bsky.social · Nov 20
Today we had the privilege of hosting Santiago Perez (UC-Davis), who presented his thought-provoking paper, "The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century." 📚 Huge thanks to Santiago for an excellent seminar! 🙌
November 21, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research

Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it

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The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price NBER Working Paper No. 33164 November 2024 JEL No. 123, 124, N32 ABSTRACT We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.
November 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM