Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Economic mobility; using data from census manuscripts, passenger ship records, tax lists, and city directories, to compare mobility in Britain, the United States and France from the 1850s to the present; determining the link between early-life circumstances and later life outcomes, and the migrant from rural areas to cities and towns.
Education/Academic qualification
Economics, PhD, University of Chicago
… → 1992
Economics, MA, University of Chicago
… → 1987
Economics, BA, Williams College
… → 1983
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Occupational mobility
Business & Economics
Labor
Arts & Humanities
Immigrants
Arts & Humanities
Immigration
Arts & Humanities
Agriculture
Arts & Humanities
Fever
Arts & Humanities
Economy
Arts & Humanities
Census
Arts & Humanities
Network
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Grants 2006 2024
Boston Early Adversity and Mortality Study (BEAMS): Linking administrative data to long-term longitudinal studies
Ferrie, J. P., Graham, E. K. & Mroczek, D. K.
8/1/19 → 5/31/24
Project: Research project
Longitudinal Studies
Mortality
Health
Siblings
Birth Certificates
A Family-Genetic Study of Language in Autism
Ferrie, J. P., Kraus, N. & Losh, M. C.
National Institute of Mental Health
9/20/16 → 8/31/21
Project: Research project
Autistic Disorder
Language
Endophenotypes
Parents
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Health & Function Over Three Decades in Alameda County
University of Michigan, National Institute on Aging
6/1/06 → 8/31/06
Project: Research project
Research Output 1985 2018
5
Citations
(Scopus)
Grandfathers Matter(ed): Occupational Mobility Across Three Generations in the US and Britain, 1850–1911
Long, J. & Ferrie, J. P., Jul 1 2018, In : Economic Journal. 128, 612, p. F422-F445Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Occupational mobility
Social mobility
Remedies
Intergenerational mobility
Immigration in American economic history
Ferrie, J. P., Jan 1 2018, The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History. Oxford University Press, Vol. 1. p. 101-117 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Economy
Economic History
Waves
Immigration
Labor
12
Citations
(Scopus)
Shocking behavior: Random wealth in antebellum Georgia and human capital across generations
Bleakley, H. & Ferrie, J. P., Aug 1 2016, In : Quarterly Journal of Economics. 131, 3, p. 1455-1495 41 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Human capital
Wealth
Literacy
School attendance
Factors
33
Citations
(Scopus)
The Long-Run impact of cash transfers to poor families
Aizer, A., Eli, S., Ferrie, J. P. & Muney, A. L., Apr 1 2016, In : American Economic Review. 106, 4, p. 935-971 37 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Cash transfers
Income
Second World War
Schooling
Educational attainment
22
Citations
(Scopus)
Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation
Beach, B., Ferrie, J. P., Saavedra, M. & Troesken, W., Feb 25 2016, In : Journal of Economic History. 76, 1, p. 41-75 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Water Quality
Fever
Human Capital
Water quality
Human capital formation