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Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to … students in countries with high - quality education. This phenomenon, as the usual brain drain, has two opposite effects on …
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-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regressiondiscontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …
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. Limited evidence for worsening higher education options in the origin countries suggests that more students start pursuing …
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Do veterans earn less? During WW I, the US organized "the greatest human lottery in history": a random draft of 24 million men. Ultimately, 2.8 million Americans were selected to join the armed forces. We sample 10% of registrants of the 1917 lottery and match these men with the 1930 and 1940 US...
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This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...
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Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to … concentration of students in countries with high-quality education. …
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This paper sheds a new perspective on models of migration by integrating in a same structure the decisions about education and work; and by incorporating return migration with "brain waste". Brain waste is defined as the depreciation, due to migration, in the human capital acquired in the home...
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Should individuals migrate before acquiring education or after? In order to analyze the optimality of the timing of migration, I develop a model of migration, which combines the two migration decisions into a unique model - decisions about where to get an education and decision about where to...
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register data on their subsequent labor market careers. The results show that students who acquired a position in the SU …
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Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … suboptimal. With an increase in globalization, the brain drain strategy will be replaced by the strategy of migration of students. …
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