Leah Platt Boustan is an American economist who is currently a professor of economics at Princeton University.
16 Facts About Leah Boustan
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Leah Platt Boustan earned a BA in Economics from Princeton University in 2000, and her PhD in 2006 from Harvard University.
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Leah Boustan was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2006 through 2016, when she returned to Princeton as a full professor of economics.
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Leah Boustan is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where she co-directs the Development of the American Economy Program.
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Leah Boustan is an editor of the Journal of Urban Economics and on the editorial board of the American Economic Review.
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Leah Boustan's research was awarded the 2019 IZA Young Economist Award.
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Leah Boustan is among the leaders in using advanced analytical techniques to answer major questions of economic history by linking individuals and families across large datasets, such as newly digitized census records, from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Leah Boustan has published three books, many academic papers, and has released a handful of working papers since 2007.
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In opposition to prior thought, that the Great Migration was a catalyst for black economic progress, Leah Boustan argued that the migration restricted the convergence of black and white wages in northern cities and contributed to "white flight".
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Leah Boustan concludes that the migration had detrimental effects on urban areas in the north, leading to the suburbanization of whites and limited black economic progress.
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Leah Boustan has published other papers on urbanization in the United States, segregation in American cities, income inequality, and other related topics.
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Leah Boustan's work exists at the forefront of a trend in economic research towards utilizing large data sets and statistical analysis to explain historical observations in the field.
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Leah Boustan has published many influential works that use statistical approaches to challenge traditional perspectives on economic events against large data sets.
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Leah Boustan's work has uncovered major insights into historical explanations in the fields of labor and urban economics.
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Leah Boustan is part of a growing movement towards increasing female participation in the economic field.
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Leah Boustan has conducted research into why female participation rates in the discipline are so low and hopes her research will help attract more women to the traditionally male-dominated discipline.