Are You an Immigrant?

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This is the first time that i myself have been in a data set. And i learned that some of the myths that my family tells about itself are true, and some of them are not true. So it's kind of like a microcosm of what we saw in the case of america. I was really able to learn more about my own family and actually test my own family stories against the data.

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.