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Title: Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel?s Economists

Author(s): Dan Ben-David

Publication Date: June 2007

Keyword(s): academic economists, brain drain, Israel, migration and rankings

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics, International Trade and Regional Economics, Labour Economics and Public Economics

Abstract: Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country?s universities - or not to return to them - a process that has brought Israel?s top economics departments to the brink. The elimination of the country from the international research envelope in the future has become a realistic possibility that will impact not only the State of Israel, which stands to lose the most, but the profession in general. This article provides a snapshot of an implosion in progress. It also provides a case study that is important for other countries to understand as some steadily advance toward the Israeli scenario.

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Ben-David, D. 2007. 'Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel?s Economists'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=6338