Review Radio: Immigration to the US

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Leah Boustan, an economics professor at Princeton University. They discuss the performance of immigrant families relative to their peers in the US, the way geographical factors play an extremely large role in economic performance, and what causes public opinion on immigration to shift over time.

 

References

 

Streets of Gold by Leah Boustan and Ran Abramitzky

 

Slow Boring Book Club: Streets of Gold by Matt Yglesias

 

Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in U.S. Schools after World War I