Dr. Leah Boustan

Biography

Leah Boustan is a professor in the Department of Economics at Yale University and serves as the Director of the Economic History Program. Boustan is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has also been a co-editor for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Her research focuses on the intersection of economic history and labor economics, particularly examining the Great Black Migration from the rural South during World War II and the patterns of mass migration in Europe and the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book, "Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets," published by Princeton University Press in 2016, received several prestigious awards including the Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award and the Alice Hanson Jones Award. Boustan's more recent work, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success," co-authored with Ran Abramitzky, has been recognized on notable book lists in 2022. Throughout her career, she has received multiple accolades, such as the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the IZA Young Labor Economist Award, and has been named a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists. Boustan completed her A.B. degree in Economics at Princeton University and earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

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