Recent Research by Santiago Perez on Economic Success of Second Generation Immigrants

In a new working paper, joint with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan and Elisa Jacome, Center Affiliate Santiago Perez analyzes millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of U.S. history to show that children of poor immigrants from nearly every sending country have had greater success climbing the economic ladder than children of similarly poor fathers born in the United States. Moreover, the analysis documents that immigrants today are no slower to move into the middle class than immigrants from 100 years ago.

The paper received extensive media coverage, the links below provide some of that:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/upshot/immigration-america-rise-poor.html#click=https://t.co/vLThCC0Vzg

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7627231/The-American-Dream-alive-Kids-poor-immigrants-rise-no-matter-come-from.html

https://www.aei.org/economics/immigrants-still-successfully-pursue-the-american-dream/

https://sanluis.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/28-10-2019/revelan-que-hijos-de-migrantes-progresan-mas-economicamente-que-los-de