Conference on High-Skill Immigration.

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An NBER Conference on High-Skill Immigration, organized by Sarah Turner, NBER and the University of Virginia, and William Kerr, NBER and Harvard Business School, took place in Cambridge, MA on October 25, 2012. These papers were discussed:

* Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University and NBER, "Does the United States Admit the Best and Brightest Computer and Engineering Workers?"

* Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago and NBER, and Gordon Hanson, University of California, San Diego and NBER, "Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born Ph.D.s in the US"

* Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER; Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano; and Giuseppe Scellato, Politecnico di Torino, "The Comings of the Foreign-born for Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Study: A Sixteen Country Perspective"

* Ina Ganguli, Stockholm School of Economics, "Immigration & Ideas: What Did Russian Scientists 'Bring' to the US?"

* George Borjas, Harvard University and NBER, and Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame, "Intellectual Mobility: Native Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas"

* Richard Freeman, Harvard University and NBER...