Winner of the IZA Young Labor Economist Award, 2019.

Best Adviser Award, Graduate Economics Club, Princeton University, 2018.

Leah Platt Boustan is the author of Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets, Princeton University Press (2017).

Winner of the Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award for Outstanding Book in Social Science History, Social Science History Association, 2018.

Winner of Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize for Outstanding Book in North American Economic History, Economic History Association, 2018.

Leah Platt Boustan '06, Carola Frydman '06, and Robert A. Margo are the editors of Human Capital in History: The American Record, University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Awarded Strauss Fellowship, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice, NYU School of Law, 2013.

Wiinner of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, awarded to "126 early-career scholars [who] represent the most promising scientific researchers working today," 2012.

Winner of the  Economic History Association’s Alan Nevins Prize for best dissertation in US economic history, 2006.

Postdoctoral Fellow,Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), 2013-16.

Recipient of the Prize for Excellence in Development, German Economics Association & KfW, 2019.

Awarded Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Grant, 2018.

Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration, Harvard University, 2016-2019.

IIPF Young Economists Award, International Institute of Public Finance, 2020.

Assistant Professor of Economics and Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 2020-2021.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, 2019-2020.

Visiting Scholar, Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2020.

Winner of the Economic History Association's Allan Nevins Prize for best dissertation in American economic history, 2019.

Review of Economic Studies Tour, 2019.

Winner of the David A. Wells Prize in Economics for her dissertation, Harvard University, 2019.

Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, Economics Department, Princeton University, 2016-2017.

Winner of the Alan Nevins Prize for best dissertation in US economic history, Economic History Association, 2016.

Common-Sense Evidence: The Education Leader’s Guide to Using Data and Research, by Nora Gordon and Carrie Conaway, has been published by the Harvard Education Publishing Group (2020).

James M. and Cathleen D Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration, Harvard University, 2017-2021.