This paper investigates the local impact of biomedical research on mortality in the USA. Causally estimating the … marginal value of biomedical research is challenging due to a lack of micro data linking health outcomes to plausibly exogenous … variation in research. We create a new linkage between a research database (PubMed) and administrative death records that …

This paper is an attempt to assess the existence and magnitude of local research spillovers in France. We rely on the …

origin and patent protection, in order to allow for parameter heterogeneity based on a country's institutional …

This paper describes flows of basic research through the U.S. economy and explores their implications for scientific … basic research flows than was previously available. Basic research flows are high within petrochemicals and drugs and within … limited to software and communications. In general, basic research flows are more concentrated within scientific fields than …

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of …