High-Skill Immigration in Science and Engineering
Organized by William R. Kerr and Sarah Turner
Supported by the Sarah Scaife Foundation
October 25, 2012
the NBER in Cambridge

Thursday, October 25

1

Does the United States Admit the Best and Brightest Computer and Engineering Workers?

Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University and NBER

2

Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born PhDs in the US

Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago and NBER
Gordon H. Hanson, Harvard University and NBER

3

The Comings of the Foreign-born for PhD and Postdoctoral Study: A Sixteen Country Perspective

Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER
Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano
Giuseppe Scellato, Politecnico di Torino

4

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures and Innovation Rates of U.S. Firms

Sari Kerr, Wellesley College
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
William Lincoln, Claremont McKenna College

5

Immigration & Ideas: What Did Russian Scientists `Bring' to the US?

Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and NBER

6

Intellectual Mobility: Native Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas

George J. Borjas, Harvard University and NBER
Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame

7

Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US

Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University and NBER
Wei Huang, Renmin University of China

8

Recruitment of Foreigners in the Market for Computer Scientists in the US

John Bound, University of Michigan and NBER
Breno Braga, The Urban Institute
Joseph Golden, PerfectRec.com

9

The Effect of International Migration on Productivity: Evidence from Randomized Allocation of U.S. Visas to Software Workers at an Indian Firm

Michael Clemens, George Mason University