Are the Children of Immigrants Growing Up in the Same Households Doing Better?

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Cheddy and others have data from 19 forty onward about income. What did you add? You've added data before 19 forty en. We'll take a anyway, somebody who's got a relatively unusual name, and we know her lived over ten years ago. Now i want to find what that person's different here? Right? That's a on to clarify now, ecause i think we haven't quite got to the punch line there.

Immigration to the United States, say Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, is more novel than short story: It takes decades for new immigrants to catch up economically. But their kids on average thrive economically and have higher rates of upward mobility than American-born kids. Abramitzky and Boustan talk about their book Streets of Gold with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Using an extraordinary data set of millions of Americans, Boustan and Abramitzky find that today's immigrants and their children are surprisingly similar to yesterday's.