Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration. Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology.

Autor/inn/en	Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration. Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research (2023) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w31308
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w31308
Schlagwörter	Arbeitskraft; Brain Drain; Hochschule; Arbeitspapier; Absolvent; Hoch Qualifizierter; Indien
Abstract	We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students taking the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), a college entrance exam used for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). We find a high incidence of migration after students complete college: among the top 1,000 scorers on the exam, 36% have migrated abroad, rising to 62% for the top 100 scorers. We next document that students who attended the original "Top 5" Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) were 5 percentage points more likely to migrate for graduate school compared to equally talented students who studied in other institutions. We explore two mechanisms for these patterns: signaling, for which we study migration after one university suddenly gained the IIT designation; and alumni networks, using information on the location of IIT alumni in U.S. computer science departments.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2024/1