Economic History Association Awards Allan Nevins Prize to Graduate James Feigenbaum

James Feigenbaum recently completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University.

In his dissertation, "Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality: Essays in Historical Labor Economics," Feigenbaum estimates the effects of economic downturns on intergenerational mobility, applies machine learning techniques to the development of new historical data, and compares the differences in mobility rates over the past 100 years.

James Feigenbaum was awarded the Allan Nevins Prize in American Economic History by the Economic History Association on behalf of Columbia University Press for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history completed during the previous year.

In 2016-17, he will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. In Fall 2017, he will join the Boston University Department of Economics as an assistant professor. His primary research interests are in labor economics and economic history.