Katherine Eriksson

Overview

UC Davis economist and NBER affiliate. Works on immigration economics and economic history, with a focus on assimilation of historical and contemporary immigrant cohorts in the United States.

Key Contributions / Features

• Co-author (with Abramitzky and Boustan) of Abramitzky Boustan and Eriksson 2019 — Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past on name-based cultural assimilation across immigration eras.
• Co-author of "A Nation of Immigrants" (JPE 2014) on economic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration.
• Expertise in linking historical Census records with modern administrative data to study long-run immigrant trajectories.

Related

• Cultural Assimilation
• Ran Abramitzky
• Leah Boustan

Sources

• Abramitzky Boustan and Eriksson 2019 — Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past