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Jason M. Long
Assistant Professor of Economics
Economics


Office: Diamond 347
Phone: 207-859-5243
Fax: 859-5229
Email:
Jason.Long@colby.edu

Mailing Address:
8278 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8882

Office Hours:
Tu: 3:45 p.m.-5:30 p.m.; F: 9 a.m.-11 a.m.

Semester Schedule

Education

Ph.D., Northwestern University (Economics) 2002
B.A., Wheaton College, IL (Economics) 1996

Areas of Expertise:
  • Economic history
  • Migration and labor mobility
  • Social and economic mobility
  • Nineteenth-century British labor markets
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    Current Research

    Abstracts and Working Papers Available at Jason Longs Research Page

    My research analyzes patterns of geographic and socioeconomic mobility in the nineteenth-century British labor market, using data on individuals linked between various population censuses from 1851 to 1901. Specific issues include inter- and intragenerational social mobility, rural-urban migration, the return to primary schooling, and comparative patterns of mobility between the British and U.S. labor markets from 1850 to the present.

    "'Everything in Common...But the Language?': Intergenerational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850", with Joseph Ferrie, NBER working paper 11253 (revise & resubmit, American Economic Review)
    "Social Mobility Within and Across Generations in Britain, 1851-1901" (revise & resubmit, Journal of Economic History)
    "Human Capital Investment and Social Mobility in Britain, 1851-1901"
    "Labor Mobility in Britain, France, and the U.S. in the Nineteenth Century", with Joseph Ferrie and Lionel Kesztenbaum
    "Long-Distance Migration and Intergenerational Mobility: British Emigration to the U.S. and Canada, 1851-1881", with Joseph Ferrie
    "Female Mobility in Victorian Britain"
    "Social Mobility in 19th-Century Scotland: Looking for the 'Lad of Parts'"
    "Where Have All the Shopkeepers Gone?", with Joel Mokyr

    Publications

    "The Path to Convergence: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. in Three Eras," Economic Journal, March 2007

    "The Socioeconomic Return to Primary Schooling in Victorian England," Journal of Economic History, December 2006

    "Rural-Urban Migration and Socioeconomic Mobility in Victorian Britain," Journal of Economic History, March 2005

    "Labor Mobility", with Joseph Ferrie, Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press, 2003.