Research

My research lies at the intersection of labor economics, intergenerational mobility, income inequality, and applied microeconometrics. I study how family background, occupational choices, and skill transmission shape economic opportunities across generations. My work combines structural modeling, econometric analysis, and machine learning methods to better understand the mechanisms driving inequality and economic mobility.

Featured Research

Intergenerational Transmission of Occupational Skills in the United States: A Machine Learning Analysis of Fathers’ Skills and Children’s Career Outcomes

📄 View Paper

Using data from IPUMS USA and O*NET, this paper examines how fathers’ occupational skills influence children’s occupational outcomes. Combining multinomial logistic regression and machine-learning methods with SHAP interpretability, the study demonstrates that technical, analytical, communication, problem-solving, and management skills are transmitted across generations and significantly shape occupational sorting.

Keywords: Occupational Choice, Intergenerational Mobility, Machine Learning, Human Capital, Labor Economics

Publications

Parents, Paths, and Paychecks: Examining Intergenerational Occupational Mobility and Career Choices

** Forthcoming (2026)**

This paper examines the relationship between occupational inheritance, career choice, and earnings outcomes using nationally representative U.S. data. The findings demonstrate how occupational persistence contributes to the transmission of economic advantage and disadvantage across generations.

Working Papers

Legacy of Labor: The Impact of Parental Jobs on Children’s Career Choices and Income Inequality

Revise and Resubmit

📄 View Paper

This paper develops a novel model of occupational self-selection that integrates the Roy model with intergenerational transmission theory. The analysis shows that many children from low- and middle-income families are negatively self-selected into their parents’ occupations, resulting in talent misallocation and persistent inequality.

Intergenerational Self-Selection Model: The Influence of Fathers’ and Mothers’ Occupations on Children’s Occupational Outcomes

📄 View Paper

This paper extends the self-selection framework to examine differences in occupational transmission across mothers and fathers and across sons and daughters. The results reveal important gender-specific patterns in occupational inheritance and labor market outcomes.

Intergenerational Transmission of Occupations in the United States

📄 View Paper

Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), this paper investigates occupational inheritance across the occupational distribution and documents substantial persistence at both the top and bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.

Relationship Between Intergenerational Mobility and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Data

📄 View Paper

Using cross-country panel data and System GMM estimation, this study examines how intergenerational mobility moderates the relationship between income inequality and economic growth. The findings suggest that higher mobility can substantially mitigate the growth-reducing effects of inequality.

Research in Progress

Intergenerational Transmission of Occupational Skills in the United States: A Machine Learning Analysis of Fathers’ Skills and Children’s Career Outcomes

📄 View Paper

Earlier Research

• Exchange Rate Forecasting Using Factor Models
• Public Debt, GDP, and the Crowding-Out Effect: Evidence from the United States
• Term Structure of Interest Rates in the United States: A Cointegration Analysis