2022 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum

The Rice Family

October
06
6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
Private
Date:
October 06, 2022
Time:
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location:
The Puck Building , 295 Lafayette Street, New York , NY 10012

 Henry Hart Rice was an industry senior statesman, public servant, author, and lecturer, Mr. Rice conceived and developed projects throughout the US and Canada. But it was in New York City that he made his mark. We will honor the Rice family during the annual Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum. Join us for a discussion with Leah Boustan, one of the leading scholars on the history of economics. Boustan will expand upon insights from her new book, Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success.



 

FEATURING:

Leah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where she also serves as the Director of the Industrial Relations Section. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history and labor economics. Her first book, Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press, 2016) examines the effect of the Great Black Migration from the rural south during and after World War II. Her recent work, including her new book Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs 2022), is on the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

Professor Boustan is co-director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also serves as co-editor at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Professor Boustan was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2012 and won the IZA Young Labor Economists Award in 2019.

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Leah Boustan