Katherine Eriksson

Eriksson

Associate Professor

  • Economics
1144 Social Science and Humanities

Katherine Eriksson is an economic historian who received her Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA in 2013.  One strand of her research has focused on the immigrants during what is known as the "age of mass migration" in the US between 1850 and 1930. Looking at this time period, a time with no restrictions on who was allowed to come, she is able to answer "who came?" and "how did migrants assimilate in the US?". By studying the performance of past immigrants, we can learn something about immigration today. A second strand of research concerns the origins of black-white disparities in education, health, and incarceration, looking at the first half of the twentieth century U.S.

Katherine Eriksson's content

Katherine Eriksson's Article "Ethnic enclaves and immigrant outcomes: Norwegian immigrants during the Age of Mass Migration" Published on Oxford Academic
This paper examines the effect of ethnic enclaves on economic outcomes of Norwegian immigrants in 1910 and 1920, the later part of the Age of Mass Migration.
Santiago Perez and Katherine Eriksson's Research on Immigrant Families' Success Featured in Davis Enterprise
Since taking office, President Donald Trump has made it a priority to restrict legal immigration to the United States. To bolster its anti-immigration policies, the Trump administration has pushed the narrative that poor immigrants are a drain on government resources. New research by UC Davis professor Santiago Pérez sheds light on the economic mobility of immigrants and suggests the government’s view may be shortsighted.
Katherine Eriksson's Research on Wealth Shock Featured in CityLab Article
It will end up costing the U.S. economy as much as $1 trillion between now and 2028 for the nation to maintain its longstanding black-white racial wealth gap, according to a report released this month from the global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company.  Professor Katherine Eriksson's reasearch found that “The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners After the Civil War,” that white resilience to economic catastrophe has been almost impenetrable.
Katherine Eriksson's research featured in WSJ, Washington Post, and The Economist
Professor Katherine Eriksson's recent publication was featured in articles by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Economist.
Katherine Eriksson and Jenna Stearns receive ISS Junior Faculty Research Grants
Assistant Professors Katherine Eriksson and Jenna Stearns have received two of the seven Junior Faculty Research Grants awarded this year by UC Davis's Institute for Social Sciences (ISS).
Katherine Eriksson receives 2018-2019 UC Davis Hellman Fellowship Award
Assistant Professor Katherine Eriksson has received a UC Davis Hellman Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year. Hellman Fellowships are awarded each year to promising early-career researchers across many divisions of the university.
MRC Faculty Symposium
In the MRC Faculty Symposium, the associates of the research cluster will present their research in a compact and thought-provoking way. They will touch economic, social, legal, and political themes linked to migration as well as historical and human-cultural ways of looking at this phenomenon.
To the New World and Back Again: Return Migration and Upward Mobility
Katherine Eriksson research has focused on the immigrants during what is known as the "age of mass migration" in the US between 1850 and 1930. Her second strand of research concerns the origins of black-white disparities in education, health, and incarceration, looking at the first half of the twentieth century U.S.
The Impact of Migration on Infant Health: Evidence from the Great Migration
This seminar examines a new dataset that links individual infant death certificates to parental characteristics to assess the impact of parents' migration to Northern cities on infant mortality.
Katherine Eriksson, Ran Abramitzky, and Leah Platt Boustan's book "A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration" published by Journal of Political Economy
Assistant Professor Katherine Eriksson, Ran Abramitzky, and Leah Platt show that, the average immigrant did not face a substantial occupation-based earnings penalty upon first arrival and experienced occupational advancement at the same rate as natives.
Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the age of mass migration
Authors: Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, Katherine Eriksson. ​​Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, they studied the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigrants.