"The Past, Present and Future of Education: A Business and Management Perspective critically analyzes the systemic decline of the U.S. Department of Education, questioning its current relevance and advocating for transformative change. The goal of this book is to provide a history of education,...

This paper provides new causal evidence on how patent allowances affect firms and their employees based on quasi-random assignment of patent applications to examiners. Exploiting employer-employee records with newly linked German firm data and web-scraped patent documents, we show that...