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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

William Kerr, Joshua Lerner and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

April 8, 2104

 

National Press Club

529 14th Street, NW

Washington, DC

 

PROGRAM

 

 

8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:10 am

George Borjas, Harvard University and NBER

Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame

 

How High-Skill Immigration Affects Science: Evidence from the Collapse of the USSR

 

9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

John Bound, University of Michigan and NBER

Sarah Turner, University of Virginia and NBER

Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs (appendix)

 

10:45 am

Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER

Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano

Giuseppe Scellato, Politecnico di Torino

 

International Competition for PhDs and Postdoctoral Scholars:  What Does (and Does Not) Matter

 

 

11:25 am

Break

 

 

11:40 am

Sari Pekkala Kerr, Wellesley College,

William R Kerr, Harvard University and NBER,

William F Lincoln, John Hopkins University

 

Firms and the Economics of High-Skilled Immigration

 

12:20 pm

Richard Freeman, Harvard University and NBER

 

Immigration, International Collaboration, and Innovation:

Science and Technology Policy in the Global Economy

 

1:00 pm

Luncheon

 

 

 

Luncheon Keynote

 

Alan Krueger, Princeton University,

Chair of Council of Economic Advisors 2011-2013