"A study by the Institut Montaigne found that academics constitute a much larger percentage of French émigrés to the United States today than 30 years ago: 27 percent of the total from 1996 to 2006, compared with 8 percent from 1971 and 1980. In particular, many of France’s best biologists and economists are now in the United States.
-- Peter Baldwin is a professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles, and the author, most recently, of “The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike.”
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/11/28/why-french-scholars-love-us-colleges/the-academic-highway-runs-both-ways
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