Research Projects
Browse our four core research projects below.
Project 1Job Displacement and Occupational Downward Mobility
How involuntary job loss reshapes workers’ occupational trajectories, with a focus on differences in mobility outcomes across workers, occupations, and local labor markets.
job displacementoccupational downward mobilityinvoluntary job loss
Project 2Industry Context and Intergenerational Mobility
How long-term changes in U.S. industrial structure have reshaped intergenerational mobility, examining whether industry remains an important dimension of status inheritance.
intergenerational mobilityindustry contextstatus inheritance
Project 3New Occupations, New Pathways? Intergenerational Mobility in a Restructuring Labor Market
How the emergence of new occupational titles since 1980 reshapes the destinations available to the next generation, tested with a data-driven approach to conventional log-linear models.
intergenerational mobilitynew occupationslog-linear models
Project 4The Quiet Transformation: AI Exposure and Occupational Mobility in the Pre-LLM Era
Drawing on the NLSY97 and the AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) index, this study estimates discrete-time event history models to examine how AI predicted occupational mobility in the pre-LLM decade (2010–2019).
AI exposureoccupational mobilityNLSY97event history