NBER profile: Leah Platt Boustan.

Leah Platt Boustan is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on the Development of the American Economy and Education. She is also an associate professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her academic interests lie at the intersection between economic history, labor economics, and urban economics. Her research focuses on the Great Black Migration from the rural south during and after World War II, and the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Boustan received her A.B. in Economics from Princeton University in 2000 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2006. She joined the UCLA economics department in 2006 as an assistant professor and was promoted to her...