Daniel Han

How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? A new review highlights what we’ve learned and what we still don’t know

How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? I summarize our recent Science paper, &draw out lessons from where we need nuance (not all high-skilled is the same, & most studies lump together), what we don't know (especially how to do better policy) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

27.05.2025 17:20 — 👍 26    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 1

What happens to developing countries when highly-educated people migrate? See our new review of the evidence on "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil... #EconSky #Migration

26.05.2025 06:20 — 👍 50    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0

New paper out in @science.org!

“Brain drain” or “brain gain”?
Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries

doi.org/10.1126/scie...

23.05.2025 16:31 — 👍 134    🔁 36    💬 3    📌 4

Thrilled to see our review paper on brain drain vs. brain gain out in @science.org! Very grateful for this opportunity to work with brilliant coauthors. Importantly, we point out open questions which hopefully would spur new research on effects of high-skilled emigration on source countries.

22.05.2025 20:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Brain drain” or “brain gain”? New research identifies a more nuanced story about skilled migration Amid longstanding concerns that emigration causes “brain drain,” research by EGC affiliate Mushfiq Mobarak and coauthors identifies more complex dynamics at play – and points to emigration’s potential...

🧠“Brain drain” isn’t the whole story.

New research in @science.org by @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social & coauthors finds skilled migration can boost #HumanCapital in origin countries – if policymakers invest in education & adapt.

Read the EGC research summary: egc.yale.edu/research/bra...

22.05.2025 18:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

22.05.2025 18:28 — 👍 187    🔁 66    💬 6    📌 5

International students will stop coming to American universities if their visas are going to be at risk. This will make our intellectual community poorer and also make tuition more expensive for domestic students.

08.04.2025 01:52 — 👍 588    🔁 169    💬 6    📌 16

Very happy that this paper is out after a long time in the making. Many thanks to participants, RAs, advisory board members, and coauthors.

09.12.2024 23:52 — 👍 39    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions (Forthcoming Article) - We study regressions with multiple treatments and a set of controls that is flexible enough to purge omitted variable bias. We show that these regressions generally fail to est...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions" by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Peter Hull, and Michal Kolesár. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

13.09.2024 13:55 — 👍 49    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 1

Great work by Oeindrila Dube, Sandy Jo MacArthur, and Anuj Shah

28.11.2024 02:27 — 👍 98    🔁 32    💬 4    📌 6