# Professor Petra Moser's joint research on the economic effects stemming from the US' national immigration quota system of the 1920s is featured

1 Faculty News January 7, 2020 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2020/01/07/newsletter-gold-oil-uncertainty-and-iran/) -- "Racial quotas on immigration from southern and eastern Europe in the 1920s left the U.S. with about 1,200 fewer scientists than if the quotas had never existed, conclude [Petra Moser](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/petra-moser) and Shmuel San of New York University."

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