Bang, James T; Mitra, Aniruddha - In: Eastern Economic Journal 39 (2013) 3, pp. 387-401
We investigate the impact of civil war on high skilled emigration to the OECD over the period 1975–2000. Controlling for source country characteristics, we find that civil war increases high skilled emigration by 3–6 percentage points. Further, the nature of conflict matters: While brain...