Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born
I often tell people to watch out for selection bias. Immigrants are a distinctly unique people. They're not just members of their foreign racial/national group, they're members of their foreign racial/national group with the ambitions/motivations to leave.<p>To make the abstract concrete. Canadians living in the US are often thought to be "just like" Canadians living in Canada. But they're often not. Often they're the Canadians that sufficiently didnt fit into Canadian culture, or found something immanently attractive about US life (at least the perception of US life)...<p>So this study is kind of saying "The children of ambitious and effortful parents have higher rates of upward mobility than the general populace of US people"