John McHale is Established Professor and Head of Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Before joining NUIG he held positions as Assistant Professor of Economics and Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and as Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Toller Family Research Fellow at the Queen’s University, Ontario. Professor McHale received Ph.D and A.M degrees from Harvard in 1996, and also holds first-class B.Comm. (1988) and M.Econ.Sc. (1990) degrees from the National University of Ireland.

Prof. McHale has published numerous articles in refereed journals and edited volumes, and has co-authored (with Devesh Kapur) Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt For Talent And Its Impact on the Developing World (The Brookings Institution Press). His shorter articles have appeared in publications such as the Financial Times, the Irish Times and the Wall Street Journal. He has been a consultant to the World Bank on numerous migration and development projects.

Selected Publications:

McHale, J. (with Mihir Desai, Devesh Kapur, and Keith Rogers). (2009), The Fiscal Impact of Skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S., Journal of Development Economics, 88(1), pp. 32-44.

McHale J. (2009) Taxation and Skilled Indian Migration to the United States: Revisiting the Bhagwati Tax, in, Skilled Migration Today: Prospects, Problems, and Policies, Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon Hanson, editors, Oxford University Press.

McHale, J. (with Ajay Agrawal and Devesh Kapur). (2008), How do Spatial and Social Proximity Affect Knowledge Flows: Evidence from Patent Data, Journal of Urban Economics, 64, 258-269.

McHale J. (with Devesh Kapur). (2007), What’s Wrong With Plan B? International Migration as an Alternative to Development Assistance, Brookings Trade Forum 2006, Global Labor Markets, pp. 137-186.

McHale, J. (with Ajay Agrawal and Iain Cockburn). (2006), Gone But Not Forgotten: Knowledge Flows, Labor Mobility, and Enduring Social Relationships, Journal of Economic Geography, 6, pp. 571-591.