Times of India | Swades sans sacrifice: How to rethink IIT brain drain puzzle

A new NBER working paper by Prithwiraj Choudhury et. al finds that among the top 1,000 scorers on the IIT-JEE 2010, 36% have migrated abroad. Moreover, of the top 100, as many as 62 have migrated abroad. The better a person’s IIT-JEE rank, the higher the chances they have already bid adieu to India. This paper sparked another conversation on the decades-old problem called ‘brain drain’. So, how do we think about highly skilled emigration from India circa 2023? Read the full article here.