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Paper Title: Indian Students in the United States and the General Agreement on Trade in Services: An Empirical Analysis of Brain-Drain or Brain-Gain Theories
Session Title: Economics of Education and Human Capital Management (Table 14)
Paper Type: Roundtable Presentation
Presentation Date: 4/25/2022
Presentation Location: San Diego, California
Descriptors: Economics of Education, Race, World-wide perspective on education
Methodology: Quantitative
Author(s): Narender Thakur, University of Delhi; Matthew A. Witenstein, University of Dayton
Unit: SIG-Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance
Abstract: This research paper examines empirically the brain-drain and brain-gain theories in the context of mobility of Indian students in the US and GATS. Brain-drain effects are loss of finance and human capital to sending country-India. Brain-gain effects are financial and human capital gains for receiving country- the US.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/1887243