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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

High Skill Immigration in the Global Economy

William R. Kerr and Sarah Turner, Organizers

October 25, 2013

NBER

3^rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

October 24, 2013
6:00 pm	Group Dinner – Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
October 25, 2013
8:15 am	Shuttle Vans depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Introductory Remarks – Sarah and Bill
9:15 am	Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER Alessandra Voena, University of Chicago and NBER Fabian Waldinger, University of Warwick German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention
10:00 am	Shulamit Kahn, Boston University Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER Do Return Requirements Increase International Knowledge Diffusion?
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
11:45 am	Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER John McHale, National University of Ireland Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology Does a Decline in Star Immigration Help or Harm US Science?
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Sarah Turner, University of Virginia and NBER College in the States: Foreign Student Demand and Higher Education Supply in the U.S
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University and NBER Johann Harnoss, University of Lille Hillel Rapoport, Bar Ilan University Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
3:15 pm	Summation & next steps & data needs
3:45 pm	Adjourn