Insights on Immigration and Cities at the 2022 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum

Earlier this month, NYU Wagner hosted the annual Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum, which highlights eye-opening research related to urban policy, past, present, and future.

This year’s forum featured Leah Boustan, a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where she also serves as the Director of the Industrial Relations Section. She is a Co-Director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves as Co-Editor at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Professor Boustan is an economic historian who specializes in labor economics. At the 2022 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum, she spoke about her most recent book, Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success, which explores the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Streets of Gold discusses the success of European immigrants around the turn of the century and counters common American conceptions about immigration. Professor Boustan’s work explores social mobility and assimilation within immigrant communities, as well as how immigration changes economies for the better, for all who live here.

Dean Sherry Glied gave opening remarks for the 2022 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum, which was attended by faculty, policy leaders, and students, including Wagner students from the Henry Hart Rice Urban Studies Fellowship program.

The Henry Hart Rice Urban Studies Fellowship is awarded to outstanding students who are committed to bringing acquired expertise to tackle today’s urban issues.