Please join us today for a Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI) lunch and research seminar,
PLUS appreciation of Outgoing CSSI Director Ina Ganguli with cake!
Friday September 12, 12pm-1:30pm
Lederle Graduate Research Center, Room A311 (note room change this week only)
Speaker: Ina Ganguli, Economics and Management, UMass Amherst
Science Without Borders? Migration, Measurement, and Global Science
Abstract: International mobility and the global exchange of knowledge have long been central to scientific progress. Today, even as science increasingly depends on the movement of students and researchers across borders, barriers such as migration restrictions, war and geopolitical conflict, are challenging global integration. Understanding the factors shaping international migration and knowledge flows is challenging due to data limitations and limitations in opportunities for estimating causal effects. In this talk, I will present research on the international migration of scientists and students from diverse contexts: graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), International Math Olympiad participants, and Ukrainian researchers during wartime. Across these studies, I draw on novel datasets and employ quasi-experimental methods to better understand how migration and internationalization influence science and innovation.
Bio: Ina Ganguli is a Professor in the Economics and Management departments at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and recently served as Director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute. Her research focuses on the economics of science and innovation, with recent work on international migration of researchers and gender differences in scientific commercialization activities. She holds a PhD from Harvard University, an MPP from University of Michigan, and a BA from Northwestern University. A former Fulbright scholar in Ukraine, she has also served as a U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist in Russia, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan. She is a Research Associate at the NBER and a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Laboratory for Innovation Science.
Lunch and celebratory cake will be provided.
Lederle Graduate Research Center (LGRC) is located at 740 N. Pleasant Street.
