Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and Leah Boustan, Princeton University have co-authored a new paper on the intergenerational mobility of immigrants in the US. "For nearly ten years, we've been working on research that adds data to the debate. And now, in a new paper co-authored with Elisa Jácome of Princeton and Santiago Pérez of UC Davis, we use millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of U.S. history to show that immigrants today are no slower to move into the middle class than immigrants from 100 years ago."

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