Higher Education, Merit-Based Scholarships and Post-Baccalaureate Migration

We would like to thank the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago (grant # R24 HD051152-05 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) for their support. Rebecca Hinze-Pifer provided excellent research assistance. We are extremely grateful to Jeff Groen, Jeffrey Grogger, Kirabo Jackson, Michael Lovenheim, James Sallee, Sarah Turner and to participants at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, the New York Federal Reserve Board, the 2012 CESIfo Area Conference on the Economics of Education and 2012 SIEPR Young Scholars Conference at Stanford University for helpful comments and discussion. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• November 8, 2012