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Kristina Butaeva

@butaevak.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

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New working paper on recent trends in class mobility in the US: www.nber.org/papers/w34800

I learned a lot from an amazing team of collaborators at the @ucstonecenter.bsky.social while working on this propject: Weiqi Wang, @butaevak.bsky.social, and @durlauf.bsky.social

12.02.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Using a new method for measuring an income distribution from survey data, research by Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar @butaevak.bsky.social obtains new estimates of income inequality in China which are robust to top-tail outliers.

Read more: bit.ly/3Q254UN

18.04.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar @butaevak.bsky.social explores intergenerational mobility in imperial China. Her findings trace how major historical crises impacted mobility and inequality.

πŸ”— Register: bit.ly/3GqBaHu

24.04.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New from the Stone Center!
How do we compare intergenerational mobility in countries undergoing structural economic shifts to those that aren’t?

Our affiliates take on this complex question in their latest paper.

19.08.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inter-province income/education inequality in China isn’t new; intra-province inequality might be. @butaevak.bsky.social & Park show that poorer provinces have higher inequality because of higher educational inequality, higher returns to schooling & lower average attainment. Read nowβ†’ bit.ly/3Vhf8Lz

12.09.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a slide in a talk on trends in status mobility in China by Steve Durlauf

Photo of a slide in a talk on trends in status mobility in China by Steve Durlauf

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Slide from an amazing talk by @durlauf.bsky.social on trends in status mobility in historical and contemporary China that used our public data, and my reaction to seeing the mention of CMGPD-LN.

04.12.2025 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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05.12.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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