Streets of Gold

America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success

Virtual Book Talk

Saturday, November 19, 2022

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific Time)
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Leah Boustan (Economics, Princeton), co-author of  Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success; with comment by Claude Fischer (Sociology, UC Berkeley).

In “Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success,” Stanford Professor Ran Abramitzky and Princeton Professor Leah Boustan use the tools of modern data analysis to present new evidence about the past and present of the American Dream and debunk immigration myths fostered by political opportunism.