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Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration : Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology
Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students taking the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), a college entrance exam used for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). We find a high incidence of migration...
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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia
Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher...
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Intellectual Returnees as Drivers of Indigenous Innovation : Evidence from the Chinese Photovoltaic Industry
Luo, Siping - 2013
We offer new evidence on indigenous innovation and intellectual returnees by estimating the relationship between patenting by Chinese photovoltaic firms and the presence of corporate leaders with international experience. Our research approach combines data from three sources: the industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459145
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Education, Redistribution, and the Threat of Brain Drain
Haupt, Alexander - 2004
This paper analyzes the relationship between brain drain, human capital accumulation and individual net incomes in the presence of a redistributional tax policy, credit market constraints, administrative costs of tax collection, and lack of government commitment. We characterize how decreasing...
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Intergenerational Human Capital Impacts and Complementarities in Kenya
Duhon, Madeline; Fernald, Lia C. H.; Hicks, Joan Hamory; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This study exploits experimental variation in parent human capital (early-life school-based deworming) and a shock to schooling (extended Covid closures) to estimate how these factors interact in the production of child human capital within a sample of 3,500 Kenyan 3-8 year olds. Parents with...
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Skills, Majors, and Jobs : Does Higher Education Respond?
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We quantify the magnitude and nature of response in the 4-year sector using a new measure of labor demand at the institution-major level that combines online job ads with geographic...
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Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation
Agrawal, Ajay - 2008
The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its innovators depends in turn on their access to technological knowledge. The emigration of highly skilled individuals weakens local knowledge networks (brain drain), but may also help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464057
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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers : When is Brain Drain Beneficial?
Kuhn, Peter J. - 2006
We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for...
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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337769
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Intergenerational Transfer, Human Capital and Long-term Growth in China under the One Child Policy
Zhu, Xi - 2013
We argue that the demographic changes caused by the one child policy (OCP) may not harm China's long-term growth. This … attributes to the higher human capital induced by the intergenerational transfer arrangement under China's poor … of schooling rather than 8.1). Our model sheds new light on the prospects of China's long-term growth by emphasizing the …
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