Dear RSF:

Please join us next Wednesday, September 25 at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Guest Speaker Leah Boustan from Princeton University, “Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries.”

Leah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where she also serves as the Director of the Industrial Relations Section. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history and labor economics. Her first book, Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press, 2016) examines the effect of the Great Black Migration from the rural south during and after World War II. Her recent work, including her newest book Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs, 2022), is on the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  She holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and an AB in Economics from Princeton University.

Boustan is co-director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also serves as co-editor at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. She was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2012 and won the IZA Young Labor Economists Award in 2019.