That analysis assumes that supply for academic opportunity is elastic. Is that a sound assumption? Because otherwise, it's not fair to say you've lost nothin

That analysis assumes that supply for academic opportunity is elastic. Is that a sound assumption? Because otherwise, it's not fair to say you've lost nothing when a college graduate leaves your country. Edit: Response to deleted comment: I didn't say anybody would leave the country because getting citizenship was too easy, that's ridiculous and not a very charitable read of my comment. I was addressing this in particular: >If obtain citizenship but return home, they now have a tie to your country. If they decline citizenship, you've lost nothing. In the scenario where somebody obtains or declines a citizenship and returns home, then you've lost something. Whether they take or pass up the citizenship isn't the matter. Whatever their motivation happens to be for accepting or declining the citizenship, in either case you've lost something if they leave the country.