Prof. Abramitzky discussed his book Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success and his new paper, “The Immigrant-Native Incarceration Gap in the United States: 1870-2020.”
Ran Abramitzky is Stanford Federal Credit Union Professor of Economics and the Senior Associate Dean of the Social Sciences at Stanford University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a former co-editor of Explorations in Economic History. Weaving his family story together with extensive economic and historical data, Abramitzky’s prize-winning book, The Mystery of the Kibbutz examines how communities based on income equality survived in Israel for over a century, and the conditions under which more equal societies can thrive.
