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Kantor, Shawn Everett; Whalley, Alexander T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...

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The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains

Fort, Teresa C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

innovation, which US firms leverage around the world …

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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan

Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …

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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries

Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

various dimensions of upgrading --- learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …

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Historical Differences in Female-Owned Manufacturing Establishments : The United States, 1850-1880

Gozen, Ruveyda; Hornbeck, Richard; Humlum, Anders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We characterize female-owned manufacturing establishments using newly digitized manuscripts from the US Census of Manufactures (1850, 1860, 1870, 1880). Female-owned establishments were smaller than male-owned establishments and had lower capital-to-output ratios, which could reflect...

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Free-Riding Yankees : Canada and the Panama Canal

Galiani, Sebastián; Jaramillo, Luis F.; Uribe-Castro, Mateo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the impact of the Panama Canal on the development of Canada's manufacturing sector in the years from 1900 to 1939. Using newly digitized county-level data from the Census of Manufactures and a market-access approach, we exploit the plausibly exogenous nature of this historical episode...

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