How does the emigration of "top scientific brains" impact the development of the next generation of scientists? I … scientists after the end of the Soviet Union. I create a novel panel dataset based on scientific publications to estimate … emigration of former Soviet scientists combined with official Russian statistics on the production of PhDs aggregated at the …

As scientists' careers unfold, mobility can allow researchers to find environments where they are more productive and … scientists in the U.S., we paint a nuanced picture of mobility. Prolific scientists are more likely to move, but this impulse is … mobility decisions. Interestingly, we also identify a significant role for family structure. Scientists appear to be unwilling …