We exploit changes in US visa policies for nurses to measure the origin-country human
capital response to international migration opportunities. Combining data on all migrant …

In the four decades since 1980, US colleges and universities have seen the number of
students from abroad quadruple. This rise in enrollment and degree attainment affects the …

South Asians traveling to richer Asian nations is the world's largest migration corridor. We
track down applicants to a government lottery that randomly allocated visas to Bangladeshis …

How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of
migrantorigin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous and …

Over the 1990s, the share of foreigners entering the US high-skill workforce grew rapidly.
This migration potentially had a significant effect on US workers, consumers and firms. To …

During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 700,000 Yugoslavian
refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural …

We study how random variation in the availability of highly educated, foreign-born workers
impacts firm performance and recruitment behavior. We combine two rich data sources: 1) …

We use a detailed establishment-level dataset from Germany to document a new dimension
of firm heterogeneity: large firms spend a higher share of their wage bill on immigrants than …

The economic consequences of large-scale government investments in education depend
on the general equilibrium (GE) effects in both the labor market and the education sector. I …

The economic consequences of large-scale government investments in education depend
on general equilibrium effects in both the labor market and the education sector. I develop a …