High-Skill Immigration in Science and Engineering

William R. Kerr and Sarah Turner, Organizers

October 25, 2012

the NBER in Cambridge

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, October 25
1
Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University and NBER

Does the United States Admit the Best and Brightest Computer and Engineering Workers?
2
Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago and NBER
Gordon H. Hanson, Harvard University and NBER

Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born PhDs in the US
3
Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER
Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano
Giuseppe Scellato, Politecnico di Torino

The Comings of the Foreign-born for PhD and Postdoctoral Study: A Sixteen Country Perspective
4
Sari Kerr, Wellesley College
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
William Lincoln, Claremont McKenna College

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures and Innovation Rates of U.S. Firms
5
Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER

Immigration & Ideas: What Did Russian Scientists `Bring' to the US?
6
George J. Borjas, Harvard University and NBER
Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame

Intellectual Mobility: Native Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas
7
Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University and NBER
Wei Huang, Renmin University

Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US
8
John Bound, University of Michigan and NBER
Breno Braga, The Urban Institute
Joseph Golden, PerfectRec.com

Recruitment of Foreigners in the Market for Computer Scientists in the US
9
Michael Clemens, George Mason University

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