Business and Economics Department
George F. Bennett Associate Professor of Economics
On Faculty since 2011
Office: MSC 323, Hours: MW 8-10:30; W 1-3
Phone: (630)752-5033
Fax: (630)752-7037
Email: jason.long@wheaton.edu
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, 2002
B.A., Economics, Wheaton College, 1996
Courses Taught
- Wealth and Poverty of Nations
- Game Theory
- Macroeconomics
Areas of Expertise
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- Economic history
- Migration and labor mobility
- Social and economic mobility
- Nineteenth-century British and U.S. labor markets
Current Research
Abstracts and Working Papers Available at My Personal Page >>
My research analyzes patterns of geographic and socioeconomic mobility in a historical context. My focus is on the British and U.S. labor markets from the mid nineteenth century through the early twentieth century. I have made extensive use of data on individuals linked between various population censuses from 1850 to 1940. Specific issues include inter- and intragenerational social mobility, rural-urban and trans-Atlantic migration, the return to primary schooling, and comparative patterns of mobility between the British and U.S. labor markets from 1850 to the present.
Working Papers & Work in Progress:
"Grandfathers Matter(ed): Occupational Mobility Across Three Generations in the U.S. and Britain, 1850-1910" with Joseph Ferrie
"British, American, and British-American Social Mobility: Intergenerational Occupational Change Among Migrants and Non-Migrants in the Late 19th Century," with Joseph Ferrie
"Geographic and Occupational Change during the Great Depression," with Henry Siu
Publications
"Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850," with Joseph Ferrie, American Economic Review, forthcoming (originally circulated as A Tale of Two Labor Markets: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850, NBER working paper 11253)
"Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850: Reply," with Joseph Ferrie, American Economic Review, forthcoming
"The Surprising Social Mobility of Victorian Britain" European Review of Economic History (17) (February) 2013 (editor's choice)
"The Path to Convergence: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. in Three Eras," with Joseph Ferrie, Economic Journal 117 (March) 2007
"The Socioeconomic Return to Primary Schooling in Victorian England," Journal of Economic History 66 (4), December 2006
"Rural-Urban Migration and Socioeconomic Mobility in Victorian Britain," Journal of Economic History 65 (1), March 2005 (lead article)
"Labour Mobility," with Joseph Ferrie, Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 2003