Foreign Students in U.S. Doctoral Programs

Aslanbeigui, Nahid; Montecinos, Verónica

doi:10.1257/jep.12.3.171

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“…It is worth noting that foreign graduate students have a high propensity to remain in the United States, at least for the early proportion of their careers, and those who are educated in that country earn higher wages (Bratsberg and Ragan, forthcoming;Schoeni, 1997). Aslanbeigui and Montecinos (1998) On a negative note, Borjas (2002) speculates that foreign students in the United…”

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The Contribution Of Skilled Immigration And International Graduate Students To U.S. Innovation

Chellaraj

Maskus²,

Mattoo

2005

Policy Research Working Papers

106

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The impact of international students and skilled immigration in the United States on innovative activity is estimated using a model of idea generation. In the main specification a system of three equations is estimated, where dependent variables are total patent applications, patents awarded to U.S. universities, and patents awarded to other U.S. entities, each scaled by the domestic labor force. Results indicate that both international graduate students and skilled immigrants have a significant and positive impact on future patent applications as well as future patents awarded to university and non-university institutions. Our central estimates suggest that a ten-percent increase in the number of foreign graduate students would raise patent applications by 3.3 percent, university patent grants by 6.0 percent and non-university patent grants by 4.0 percent. However, enrollments of US graduate students have no detectable effect. There is evidence that bureaucratic hurdles in obtaining student visas are impediments to innovation and may reduce innovation by more than it is increased by the Bayh-Dole Act.

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Section: B Foreign Graduate Students and Skilled Immigrationmentioning

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The Contribution Of Skilled Immigration And International Graduate Students To U.S. Innovation

Chellaraj

Maskus²,

Mattoo

2005

Policy Research Working Papers

106

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“…In addition to their economic contributions, international students bring racial and ethnic diversity to our campuses (Andrade 2006;Aslanbeigui and Montecinos 1998;Klomegah 2006;Lee and Rice 2007;Olivas and Li 2006), a benefit that often extends beyond their graduation as many of the international students who seek advanced research degrees become professors at US colleges or universities (Dreher and Poutvaara 2005). Furthermore, Stephan and Levin (2003) found that foreign-born scholars working in the science and engineering disciplines represent a disproportionately high percentage of those who make exceptional contributions to US industry.…”

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International doctorates: trends analysis on their decision to stay in US

2010

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Despite the significant implications of the foreign doctorates' stay or return decision on a personal level, as well as for the home and host countries, there is very little research that provides a comprehensive understanding of the factors that predict international doctorates' decision to stay in the US and how those factors differ by country of origin or field of study. In addition, the patterns of stay (versus return) and the factors influencing those decisions may have changed over time, partly due to the changes in the immigration policies of the US and in economic development or national policy of home countries. Therefore, this study examines the patterns of international doctorates' stay versus return decision from a historical perspective across the period of the 1980, 1990, and 2000s. Using data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), collected in the US, this study enables us to move beyond a static understanding of the relative stay rates by country to an examination of how country-specific changes, such as shifts in economic development or national policy (push/pull factors), may relate to shifts in the stay versus return decision with a particular emphasis on the field specific effects.

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“…It has also inspired a lot of historical research on the internationalization or Americanization of economics, focusing on the postwar period. See, for instance, the contributions in Coats (1996aCoats ( , 2000, and Aslanbeigui and Montecinos (1998). 2 On the influence of German-speaking immigrants on American economics, see, e.g.…”

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