---
title: "Ina Ganguli"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Ina Ganguli"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-20T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Soviet émigré career premium","immigrant scientist selection","brain drain","Vitaly Pronskikh"]
---


Economist (UMass Amherst) with a peer-reviewed research program on selection effects in Soviet/Russian scientist emigration, including "Who Leaves and Who Stays? Evidence on Immigrant Selection from the Collapse of Soviet Science" (in Aldo Geuna, ed., *Global Mobility of Research Scientists*, Elsevier, 2015) — reported via search-engine synthesis only to find that the most-skilled scientists left earliest in the transition period, a finding that would bear directly on the vault's open "elite left first" question. That chapter is paywalled and unread by the vault; a related open-access 2013 working paper on PhD-production effects after Soviet collapse was fetched in full but addresses a different question (human-capital formation, not career-premium selection). Currently the strongest identified candidate for independent corroboration or refutation of [[claim-soviet-emigre-career-premium-was-structural-not-ability|Pronskikh's structural thesis]].

## References
- No claim-note rests on her work yet — her core 2015 chapter is paywalled and unread. Referenced from [[question-soviet-emigre-career-premium-corroboration]] as the leading unresolved lead.