Santiago Pérez

Santiago

Associate Professor

  • Economics
1116 Social Science and Humanities

Santiago Pérez earned his PhD at Stanford University in 2017. His areas of specialization include economic history, development economics, and labor economics. His current work focuses on historical social mobility and on the labor market outcomes of international immigrants.  

Relevant research:  ‘The (South) American Dream: Mobility and Economic Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in 19th-Century Argentina’ forthcoming in The Journal of Economic History.

Documents

Santiago Pérez's content

Forget What You Know about Immigrants and Crime
Study: Immigrants have lower incarceration rates than US-born
Trump says migrants are fueling violent crime. Here is what the research shows
Slaying of Georgia student becomes part of U.S. immigration debate
The killing of a Georgia nursing student is now at the center of the US immigration debate
The truth about illegal immigration and crime
‘Migrant Crime Wave’ Not Supported by Data, Despite High-Profile Cases
Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1850–2020
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the United States over Two Centuries
Authors: Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University), Leah Boustan (Princeton University), Elisa Jacome (Northwestern University), Santiago Perez
Immigration and Incarceration in the US: 1870-2020
Santiago Perez for the Hellman Fellowship
Santiago Pérez and Coauthors Featured in a New York Times Editorial by David Brooks
Research by Santiago Pérez Published in The Economic Journal
New Publication co-authored by Santiago Perez featured by the American Economic Association
GMC Affiliate Santiago Pérez Interviewed for "La Nación"
Santiago Perez's Publication "Income Mobility in the Families of Immigrants and US Natives" Recently Featured in NBER Digest
Analyzing waves of immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 2015, Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, Elisa Jácome, and Santiago Pérez find that sons of first-generation immigrants have greater upward income mobility rates than sons of US-born parents. This mobility gap is observed throughout more than 100 years of data and does not vary significantly over time, despite extreme changes in the immigrants' countries of origin and in US immigration policies.
Santiago Perez Awarded Best Article Published by a Young Researcher
Santiago Perez's article "The (South) American Dream: Mobility and Economic Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Argentina" was recently awarded Best Article Published by a Young Researcher, by the National Academy of Economic Sciences of Argentina.
Santiago Perez and Katherine Eriksson's Research on Immigrant Families' Success Featured in Davis Enterprise
Since taking office, President Donald Trump has made it a priority to restrict legal immigration to the United States. To bolster its anti-immigration policies, the Trump administration has pushed the narrative that poor immigrants are a drain on government resources. New research by UC Davis professor Santiago Pérez sheds light on the economic mobility of immigrants and suggests the government’s view may be shortsighted.
Santiago Perez's Research on Economic Mobility of Second-Generation Americans Featured in Vox, Irish Central, and Rio Grande Guardian
The adult children of immigrants, almost universally, show more upward economic mobility than their peers whose parents were born in the United States. Indeed, a new working paper co-authored by Santiago Pérez finds that this is especially true for the lowest-income immigrants and remains true for the most recent cohorts for which data is available.
Recent Research by Santiago Perez on Economic Success of Second Generation Immigrants