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We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to Republicans) after the 2008 election of Obama but less likely after the 2016 election of Trump. These effects are 2-3 times as strong among politically active partisans and are...
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Implementing a state-of-the-art machine learning technique for causal identification from text data (C-TEXT), we document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead...
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We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job tasks. Using US administrative data, we show that both measures negatively predict earnings growth of individual incumbent workers. While labor-saving technologies predict...
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We study the relationships between corporate R&D and three components of public science: knowledge, human capital, and … established firms, which account for more than three-quarters of business R&D, is affected by scientific knowledge produced by … innovation in firms. However, inventions from universities and public research institutes substitute for corporate inventions and …
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We investigate the role of evidence-based information in shaping individuals' preferences for trade policies through a series of survey experiments that contain randomized information treatments. Each treatment provides a concise statement of economics research findings on how openness to trade...
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Why do firms outsource research and development (R&D) for some products while conducting R&D in-house for similar ones? An innovating firm risks cannibalizing its existing products. The more profitable these products, the more the firm wants to limit cannibalization. We apply this logic to the...
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, and reallocation of capital. This finding applies mainly for obsolescence of core innovation and embodied innovation, and … profits of obsolescent firms. The measure contains incremental information about firm innovation relative to measures focusing … on new innovation …
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We study the optimal allocation of R&D resources in an endogenous growth model with an innovation network, through … more R&D toward key sectors that are upstream in the innovation network. Second, we extend to an open-economy setting and … illustrate an incentive for countries to free-ride on fundamental technologies: an economy more reliant on foreign knowledge …
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anecdotal. This paper provides direct quantitative evidence showing that how innovation and design work was done changed … fundamentally during the Industrial Revolution. This change was characterized by the professionalization of innovation and design …
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and production of financial innovation. We use machine learning to identify the financial patents and extensively audit … the results to ensure their reasonableness. We find that patented financial innovation is substantial and economically … financial sector, which collectively accounted for 69% of the awards. The location of innovation has shifted, with banks moving …
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