Front Matter Page
Asia and Pacific Department
Contents
I. Introduction
II. Data
II. a. IMO Medalists, Fields Medalists and Nobel Laureates
II. b. Survey of IMO Participants
III. Empirical Strategy
III. a. Migrant Productivity Regressions
III. b Counterfactual choices questions and regressions
IV. Results
IV. a. Importance of Migrants to the U.S. in the Global Knowledge Network of Science
IV. b. Are Migrants to the U.S. More Productive than Stayers and Migrants to Other Countries?
IV. c. What Explains the Migration Productivity Premium?
IV. d. American Dream vs. Reality: Immigration Barriers for Foreign Talent
IV. e. Policies to Reduce Immigration Barriers: Green Cards vs. Scholarships?
IV. f. Consequences of Reducing Immigration Barriers for the Advancement of Global Science
V. Discussion
Figures
Figure 1A. Global Knowledge Network for Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, Physics and Physiology or Medicine from 2000 to 2019
Figure 2. Share of migrants to the U.S. in frontier knowledge production
Figure 3. Studying abroad: dream and reality
Tables
Table 1. Migrant productivity regressions
Table 2. Migration and occupations
Table 3. Migrant productivity regressions conditional on being in math academia
Table 4. Counterfactual choice regressions
Appendixes
Appendix: Select Questions from the Survey Instrument