Moreover, he has been a scientific advisor to the French Prime Minister as part of CEPII since 2016 and chairs the department on economics and demography at the Institut des Migrations.
[7] In a comprehensive review of economics research on the brain drain, Docquier and Rapoport find that high-skill emigration "need not deplete a country's human capital stock and can generative positive network externalities".
[8] Hillel Rapoport's research centres on the nexus of migration and demography, development and political economy.
For instance, in work with Ravi Kanbur, Rapoport has developed a model with selectivity by education, wherein human capital may develop either way depending on the endo- or exogeneity of education and where past migration increase the incentives for prospective migrants to emigrate, thereby helping the model to explain the evolution of spatial inequalities in the face of ongoing migration from poor to rich areas.
[13] These network effects are further explored in work with McKenzie in Mexico, where they are found to decrease the costs for future migrants and overall reduce inequality across communities with high levels of past migration.