title: Economic analysis of brain drain.
abstract: "In this paper, we consider the brain drain problem arising from the possibility of signaling and individual's two-stage decision procedures within an asymmetric information framework.  Where the ranking of the universities provides a signal to domestic employers, our results indicate that, at rational expectations equilibrium, there is an association between students of a particular quality and corresponding qualities of universities they will choose to attend to attain Ph.D.'s.  Moreover, we can predict whether these graduating Ph.D.'s choose to return home or remain abroad."
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D004493:Education; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012574:Schools; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014495:Universities
keywords: Behavior; Brain Drain; Decision Making; Demographic Factors; Economic Factors; Education; Information; International Migration; Migration; Population; Population Dynamics; Return Migration; Schools; Socioeconomic Factors; Universities; World