“Six Decades of Educational Assortative Mating in South Korea”: Using 1960-2020 census data on >840K married couples, H. Park & @atkim.bsky.social found that “educational homogamy likely intensified as access to higher education broadened” & the economy shifted. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

I had such a great experience writing this paper with my colleagues, Rebecca Karam and Andrew Kim. We show that niching in nursing occurs across generations among Filipino Americans. Please check out! lnkd.in/g_bENi8A

Nursing as ethnic capital: perceptions of intergenerational niching among Filipino Americans - Brenda Gambol, Rebecca Karam, Andrew Taeho Kim, 2025 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Amidst all the posts about how NSF funds the basic science that (eventually) leads to marketable products, its role in funding data infrastructure is getting lost. The GSS (1972), ANES (late 1960s), and PSID (1968) are rounding error in the discretionary budget but vital national resources. 1/6

The great debate over inequality's rise continues. At the blog, I summarize a Piketty, Saez, and Zucman response to an important critique of their work. They make a convincing case that inequality after taxes has, in fact, probably risen. asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Economists often use models that show firm discrimination cannot withstand market competition. The discriminating firm is unprofitable. But what happens when it’s consumers that have discriminatory preferences? In this case, the market doesn’t solve the problem. A 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w33547

A 2023 analysis of the U.S. racial wealth divide shows that progress in reducing disparities has slowed over time. Understanding this history is crucial for shaping more effective economic policy solutions for the future. 📊💡#BlackHistoryMonth Read more here ➡️

Double disadvantage of Black, Hispanic, and Asian American women in earnings, revisited - Andrew Taeho Kim, ChangHwan Kim, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020 - Andrew Taeho Kim, ChangHwan Kim, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Persistent Educational Advantages of Asian Immigrants’ Children, 1940 to 2015–2019 - ChangHwan Kim, Andrew Taeho Kim, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It's Monday, so over at the blog I wrote about two great new papers that take a swing at what you can and can't do with sibling data. asocial.substack.com/p/two-great-...

Check in on your quantiles, people, they might not be (interpreted) alright. Excellent paper by Nicolai Borgen, @andreashaupt.bsky.social, and @oyvindw.bsky.social academic.oup.com/esr/article/...