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Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al https://www.nber.org/papers/w33558

New edition of the Summer School on the "Economics of Immigration" happening again this year in Mexico City July 21-24. More info here: globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/summer_school3

New paper studying the intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries. This paper is the result of an international collaboration of 15 country teams and a total of 38(!) coauthors. Comments welcome!

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

During Prohibition when many men lost their jobs, daughters increased their labor supply and delayed marriage and childbearing likely in an effort to compensate for lost wages, from Anna Aizer, Gabrielle Grafton, and Santiago Pérez https://www.nber.org/papers/w33346

Daughters living at home were the safety net when Dads making booze lost jobs during Prohibition www.nber.org/papers/w3334...

Love seeing two new @nberpubs.bsky.social WPs out today that use the Census Tree! "Daughters as Safety Net...Evidence from Alcohol Prohibition" by Aizer, Grafton, & Pérez "The Gilded Age & Beyond: The Persistence of Elite Wealth in American History" by Kalsi & @econzach.bsky.social

academics from poorer backgrounds are: -severely underrepresented -more likely to not publish -have outstanding publication records -introduce more novel scientific concepts, but less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations & awards www.nber.org/papers/w33289

Had a great time presenting at WFU 🙌

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...