Overview
Stanford University economist and NBER affiliate. A leading scholar of immigration economics and economic history, particularly the long-run economic and cultural assimilation of immigrants in the United States across different eras of mass migration.
Key Contributions / Features
- Lead author of Abramitzky Boustan and Eriksson 2019 — Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past, the first rigorous past/present comparison of immigrant cultural assimilation rates.
- Co-author (with Boustan and Eriksson) of "A Nation of Immigrants" (JPE 2014) on economic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration, and "Immigration in American Economic History" (JEL 2017).
- Work collectively shows that cultural and economic assimilation rates have been stable across eras, and that groups most accused of non-assimilation assimilate fastest.
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