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 … Technology (IIT). We find a high incidence of migration after students complete college: among the top 1,000 scorers on the exam …, for which we study migration after one university suddenly gained the IIT designation; and alumni networks, using …