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SUMMARY:Seminar by Prof. Petra Moser\, NYU Stern
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DTEND:20190417T133000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Petra Moser\, NYU Stern\nSeminar organized in collaborat
 ion with UNIL-HEC\n\n"Go North! Unintended Effects of Immigration Quotas o
 n Science and Invention"\n\nAbstract\nNational origins quotas restrict imm
 igration based on a person’s country of origins. This paper examines the
  effects of such quotas under the US Immigration Act of 1924 on American s
 cience and innovation. Intended to stem the inflow of unskilled workers fr
 om Eastern and Southern Europe the 1924 Act led to a dramatic decline in i
 nnovation\, with disproportionate effects on arrivals from Eastern and Sou
 thern Europe. We investigate whether these changes created unintended effe
 cts on US science and invention. Methodologically\, our analysis applies t
 opic analyses to matched records on countries of birth\, education\, resea
 rch topics\, and patents for more than 80\,000 American scientists. Our an
 alysis of scientists’ place of birth and education reveals a dramatic de
 cline in the arrival of Eastern European scientists after 1924\, even thou
 gh the Act had targeted unskilled workers. Moreover\, using k-means analy
 ses to identify the fields of Eastern European scientists\, we find that t
 he Act triggered a significant decline in inventions by native-born US sci
 entists in fields of Eastern Europeans. Some of the missing Eastern Europe
 an scientists moved to Canada\, leading to an increase in Canadian inventi
 on relative to the United States.\n 
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