
	Thursday, April 26
6:30 pm	Dinner at Bambara Restaurant (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
	Friday, April 27
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:35 am	Welcome Remarks
8:45 am	U.S. Immigration Policies and the STEM Entrepreneurial Workforce (slides) Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology John Skrentny, University of California at San Diego Discussant: Sarah Turner, University of Virginia and NBER
9:30 am	Immigration and Invention: Evidence from the Quota Acts (slides) Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame Chungeun Yoon, University of Notre Dame Discussant: Bruce A. Weinberg, The Ohio State University and NBER
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Are Immigrants More Innovative? Evidence from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (slides) J. David Brown, U.S. Census Bureau John S. Earle, George Mason University Mee Jung Kim, Sejong University Kyung Min Lee, The World Bank Discussant: Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris
11:15 am	Returnee Migrants' Self-selection: Evidence For Indian Inventors In The US (slides) Stefano Breschi, Bocconi University Francesco Lissoni, Université de Bordeaux Ernest Miguelez, Université de Bordeaux Discussant: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard University
12:00 noon	Lunch and Panel Aman Verjee, 500 Startups Ben Waber, CEO of Humanyze David Weil, Brandeis University
1:30 pm	High-Skill Immigration, Innovation, and Creative Destruction (slides) Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego Munseob Lee, University of California, San Diego Discussant: Patricia Cortés, Boston University and NBER
2:15 pm	The Effect of H-1B Visas on Firms: Evidence from Publicly Traded Firms (slides) Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University Francesc Ortega, Queens College and Graduate Center CUNY Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis and NBER Chad Sparber, Colgate University Kevin Y. Shih, University of California, Riverside Discussant: Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	High-Skilled Immigrant Networking and Innovation (slides) Sari Pekkala Kerr, Wellesley College William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER Discussant: Anne N. Le Brun, Harvard University
4:00 pm	Will the U.S. Keep the Best and the Brightest (as Post-docs)? Career and Location Preferences of Foreign STEM PhDs (slides) Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER Patrick Gaule, University of Bristol Discussant: Delia Furtado, University of Connecticut
4:45 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Gökhan Aykaç, Harvard University
Jasmina Chauvin, Harvard University
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard University
Patricia Cortés, Boston University and NBER
Gabriele Cristelli, Stanford University
Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame
John S. Earle, George Mason University
Caroline Fry, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Delia Furtado, University of Connecticut
Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University and NBER
Shulamit Kahn, Boston University
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego
Mee Jung Kim, Sejong University

Anne N. Le Brun, Harvard University
Kyung Min Lee, The World Bank
Munseob Lee, University of California, San Diego
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Mishita Mehra, University of Richmond
Ernest Miguelez, Université de Bordeaux
Francesc Ortega, Queens College and Graduate Center CUNY
Sari Pekkala Kerr, Wellesley College
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chad Sparber, Colgate University
David Spitzer, Law Office of David Spitzer, LLC
Sarah Turner, University of Virginia and NBER
Aman Verjee, 500 Startups
David N. Weil, Brown University and NBER
Bruce A. Weinberg, The Ohio State University and NBER
Chungeun Yoon, University of Notre Dame