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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Leah Boustan - What Immigration Tells Us About Economic Opportunity
The debate about immigration is usually framed around politics and labor markets. But the deeper story includes mobility. Who gets ahead, how, and why where they start determines so much about where you end up.
In this episode, Ben sits down with Leah Boustan, professor at Yale and co-author of Streets of Gold, to dig into what the data on immigration reveals about economic opportunity across generations.
Topics covered:
Why immigration is an underappreciated driver of global mobility
The Norway brothers study: why migrants earned double what their brothers who stayed earned, and why it had…
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