Delighted to hold the 800+ page book in my hands for the first time earlier this week! The iconic Bahrisons Bookseller in Delhi may be the first bookstore to have them physically in stock, and have signed copies available for early buyers!

The children of immigrants to the U.S. do better than the children of U.S.-born parents. Why? It's not entirely clear — but economist Leah Boustan has some ideas. freak.ws/3IxZ9Cx

We won! Princeton women’s bball team at the Ivy League finals!

"...we document that, as a group, immigrant men have had a lower incarceration rate than US-born men for the last 150 years of American history." ranabr.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/…

Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan is available for $2.99 on Kindle! amazon.com/gp/product/B09…

I told a grad-student co-author "try to imagine me as the guy from 'Memento' who can't remember anything & needs clues to pick-up the thread on projects" and they said "I believe you, because you already used that memento analogy"

Delighted to have been a part of this three-part Freakonomics series, along with Zeke Hernandez Leah Boustan David Leonhardt Sindhu Mahadevan Roger Nam Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ Mayor Mike Savage and others -- Start at episode 1, which begins appropriately with Genesis

JUE special issue on Race, Social Justice, & Cities is finally out! Thanks to authors, and my other co-editors Leah Boustan and Nate Baum-Snow! sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…

I rode Amtraks newest route the Borealis yesterday, here are my impressions! 🧵

Look mom I made it! Couldn’t have done it without my amazing advisers Ilyana Kuziemko and Leah Boustan, thank you 🧡🧡

10 Great Books on Work and Labour Economics 1) Streets of Gold - Abramitzky + Boustan An incredibly impressive piece of economic history, breaking down many myths about the highly contentious topic of immigration. Great longitudinal analysis and well worth a read.

The Historical Housing Prices (HHP) Project has launched with new sales and market rental housing price indices for U.S. cities spanning 1890-2006. This collaboration with Ronan Lyons and Rowena Gray uses newspaper real estate sections. A thread on these data: 1/n

Leah Platt Boustan, Codirector of the Program on the Development of the American Economy, presented at the Development of the American Economy conference on "Finding John Smith: Using Extra Information for Historical Record Linkage" at Summer Institute. youtube.com/watch?v=03hODn…

Higher crime rates from past waves of immigration is the impression you would get from watching movies, but according to Leah Boustan and co-authors who dug into the data, it just ain't so aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

I love this passage at the start of Abramitzky & @Leah_Boustan's *Streets of Gold*! hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ran-abr…

Job Post: Come work with us at the Industrial Relations Section for AY 2025-26! Econ RA Listings We (Leah Boustan Ellora Derenoncourt Simon Jäger Pauline Carry Zachary Bleemer David Lee and I) are hiring 5 new research specialists to join Princeton Economics Apply here: irs.princeton.edu/senior-researc…

Proud of this recognition to the Census Linking Project (censuslinkingproject.org)!(Leah Boustan Myera Rashid Katherine Eriksson and Ran)

Very, very happy to share that the EHA has awarded my paper on Proxenia the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding contribution to the JEH this year! It's a great honor, and I'm really grateful!

Facts, Facts, Facts (Hercule) Incarcerations for Immigrants and non-Immigrants in the Land of the Free; JD Vance Donald J. Trump may want to have a look (if they read...); perhaps Elon Musk too. great work by Leah Boustan, Ran, Elisa, Santiago, and Juan aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Proportion of New York City's population that is foreign-born: 1850: 46% 1870: 44% 1900: 37% 1920: 36% 1950: 23% 1970: 18% 1980: 24% 1990: 28% 2000: 36% Today: 38%