‘Global brain drain for US’: Why Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are leaving MIT for Zurich University

Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are moving to Switzerland to establish a new development economics center at the University of Zurich. Banerjee and Duflo’s decision to move to Zurich comes as MIT became the first major US university to reject the conditions set by the Trump administration for federal funding.