Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries

Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez

NBER Working Paper No. 26408
Issued in October 2019

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We thank Chris Becker, Alvaro Calderón, Bruno Caprettini, Raj Chetty, Jennifer Hunt, Michele Rosenberg, Martin Saavedra, Kjell Salvanes, seminar participants at Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen University, Munich, Princeton, Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Rotterdam, Stanford, Tilburg, and UC Davis, as well as conference participants at the 12th International conference on Migration and Development in Madrid, the “Intergenerational Mobility, Gender, and Family Formation in the Long Run” conference in Oslo, and SITE conference on immigration at Stanford for useful comments and discussions. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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