Quotas and quality: The effect of H-1B visa restrictions on the pool of prospective undergraduate students from abroad

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-126

  Kato, Takao ^a,b,c,d   Sparber, Chad ^a,e  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^b IZA Bonn ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84885976800     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00245     Document Type: Article

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