Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaule, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021
This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings …. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge …-histories of International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive …
