Host Andrew Xu sits down with Leah Boustan, an economics professor at Princeton University. They discuss the performance of immigrant families relative to their peers in the US, the way geographical factors play an extremely large role in economic performance, and what causes public opinion on immigration to shift over time. References Streets of Gold by Leah Boustan and Ran Abramitzky Slow Boring Book Club: Streets of Gold by Matt Yglesias Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in U.S. Schools after World War I
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