Why Do the Kids of Immigrants Move up the Economic Ladder?
One of the key findings of the remarkable little book Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success—published last month—by economists Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University) and Leah Boustan (Princeton University) is that “background is not destiny.” The researchers find that “children of immigrants from nearly every country in the world are more upwardly mobile than the children of US-born residents who were raised in families with a similar income level.”
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