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Leah Boustan
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Author STREETS OF GOLD. Economic history. Mom of 3. Jew. Talmud.
Tri-state area
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    Leah Boustan
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    May 31, 2022
    It’s publication day for STREETS OF GOLD! Ran and I were babies when we started working together, 15 years ago. Now that the book is out, let me share some of the stories of immigrant families, past and present, that bring the data to life.
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    Leah Boustan
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    Apr 17, 2019
    why does this presidential campaign look like its going to teach me python?
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    Gov. Bill Weld
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    Apr 17, 2019
    Replying to @GovBillWeld
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    Leah Boustan
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    Mar 17, 2020
    My kids found this West Point ring in the park in Princeton NJ yesterday. It has Patrick O’Neal USA engraved inside. Top says (class of) 1971. Help us find the owner! 🇺🇸
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    Leah Boustan
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    Apr 21, 2020
    Registering Beowulf for kindergarten
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    Leah Boustan
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    Apr 1, 2019
    Excited to share research with you that I have been working on since grad school 😳 Question: what happened to the sons of slaveholders who lost wealth (sometimes tremendous fortunes) after the Civil War? Did sons rebound & join elite, or did wealth loss transmit to next gen?
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    Leah Boustan
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    Sep 11, 2020
    Responding to referee 2
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    Leah Boustan
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    Jan 22, 2021
    “On the right, we have white supremacy... on the left, less viciously, we have elite universities” - @nytdavidbrooks 🤔
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    Leah Boustan
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    Apr 1, 2019
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    This paper adds another data point to our understanding of intergenerational wealth transmission. We rarely have a chance to study unanticipated shocks to family wealth and follow kids to middle age. Our conclusion: it’s not the resources here, it’s the social connections
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    Leah Boustan
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    Jan 11, 2020
    My new mantra: “If a dude wants a tampon for some reason, that’s his business” 👏
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    Leah Boustan
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    Apr 1, 2020
    Thinking of everyone who is quarantined with someone whose method for looking for a household object is to open a cabinet, stare blankly inside, and call out “where’s the X??”
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    Leah Boustan
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    Feb 3, 2019
    I was really pregnant with my first right after tenure. A senior economist (not at Chicago...) came into my office and joked “I guess you’ll never have to come to work again, now that you have tenure.” I looked him in the eye and said: “you have three kids. Is that what you do?”
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    Leah Boustan
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    Jul 9, 2017
    I'm an economics professor. Why don't you come take my class?
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    The Libertarian Middle
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    Jul 9, 2017
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    It was production efficiency, actually. Take an econ course. Nothing else would have done a thing with low productivity.
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    Leah Boustan
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    Mar 3, 2019
    Let me tell you a secret: Just got back from visiting my folks in Aspen, CO. There are free buses from everywhere to everywhere that leave every 5-15 min. They do not own a car and use buses or walk everywhere. I just want what the rich people have for the rest of the country.
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    Megan McArdle
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    Mar 3, 2019
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    Doing so would be incredibly expensive and inefficient. If you're envisioning a world where everyone enjoys the transit convenience of living in Manhattan or the near-in bits of Brooklyn/Bronx, you're having a fantasy.
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    Leah Boustan
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    Dec 15, 2020
    It looks like state borders matter for Covid rates
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