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Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis

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Axel Dreher () (Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich)
Panu Poutvaara () (University of Helsinki, Department of Economics)

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Abstract

Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to the inclusion of time and country dummies, and remains when we account for outliers. The basic results also hold for a cross section of 36 countries of origin and 9 host countries. Our results have important policy implications which we discuss in the last section.

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Paper provided by KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich in its series KOF Working papers with number 06-142.

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Date of creation: Jul 2006
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Keywords: Migration; Education; Student Flows; Brain Drain;

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F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
O15 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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