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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

A Theory of Brain Drain and Public Funding for Higher Education in the United States

  • Felicia Ionescu
  • Linnea A. Polgreen
American Economic Review
vol. 99, no. 2, May 2009
(pp. 517–21)
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Citation

Ionescu, Felicia, and Linnea A. Polgreen. 2009. "A Theory of Brain Drain and Public Funding for Higher Education in the United States." American Economic Review, 99 (2): 517–21. DOI: 10.1257/aer.99.2.517

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JEL Classification

  • H75 State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
  • I22 Educational Finance
  • I23 Higher Education and Research Institutions
  • I28 Education: Government Policy
  • J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers