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Zhang, Liang; Ness, Erik C. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
In this study, the authors use college enrollment and migration data to test the brain drain hypothesis. Their results suggest that state merit scholarship programs do indeed stanch the migration of "best and brightest" students to other states. In the aggregate and on average, the implementation of state merit aid programs increases the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Student Mobility, Student Recruitment