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International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from an Inventor-Firm Matched Data Set

Kim, Jinyoung; Marschke, Gerald Roger Marschke, Jr.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

We describe the construction of a panel data set from the U.S. patent data that contains measures of inventors' life …-cycle R&D productivity--patents and patent citations. We match the data set to information on the U.S. pharmaceutical and …

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The Influence of University Research on Industrial Innovation

Kim, Jinyoung; Marschke, Gerald Roger Marschke, Jr.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We use U.S. patent records to examine the role of research personnel as a pathway for the diffusion of ideas from … university to industry. Appearing on a patent assigned to a university is evidence that an inventor has been exposed to … industry's use of inventors with university research experience over the period 1985-97, economy wide and in the pharmaceutical …

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Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank

Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R.; Fong, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Data availability is arguably the greatest impediment to advancing the science of science and innovation policy and … very flexible sources of data for serious research on many issues in the study of organizations in innovation systems in …

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The Impact of Education on Health and Health Behavior in a Middle-Income, Low-Education Country

Mocan, Naci H.; Cesur, Resul; Dursun, Bahadir - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Although the impact of education on health is important for economic policy in developing countries, the overwhelming majority of research to identify the health returns to education has been done using data from developed countries. We use data from three waves of a nationally-representative...

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Women's Education: Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey

Kaushal, Neeraj; Grossman, Michael; Dinçer, Mehmet Alper - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures of empowerment. We apply an instrumental variables...

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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Duflo, Esther; Kremer, Michael; Dupas, Pascaline - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government's HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...

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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution

Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We present new data documenting medieval Europe's "Commercial Revolution'' using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germany's first...

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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Mocan, Naci H.; Cannonier, Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by date of birth and the variation in resources...

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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Meghir, Costas; Cattan, Sarah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...

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Limited Life Expectancy, Human Capital and Health Investments: Evidence from Huntington Disease

Oster, Emily; Shoulson, Ira; Dorsey, E. Ray - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

One of the most basic predictions of human capital theory is that life expectancy should impact human capital investment. Limited exogenous variation in life expectancy makes this difficult to test, especially in the contexts most relevant to the macroeconomic applications. We estimate the...

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