Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first … report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are … within firms. Using structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks …