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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...

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Economics of research and innovation in agriculture

Moser, Petra (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Economics of Research and … - 2021

Introduction /Petra Moser --The roots of agricultural innovation : patent evidence of knowledge spillovers /Matthew … Meyers, Paul W. Rhode --Comment /Michael J. Roberts --Local effects of land grant colleges on agricultural innovation and …, more resilient crops to feed a more crowded planet in the twenty-first century. Innovation has historically helped …

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Building a Wall Around Science : The Effect of U.S.-China Tensions on International Scientific Research

Flynn, Robert; Glennon, Britta; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper examines the impact of rising U.S.-China geopolitical tensions on three main dimensions of science: STEM trainee mobility between these countries, usage of scientific works between scientists in each country, and scientist productivity in each country. We examine each dimension from a...

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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers

Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...

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Policy Uncertainty Reduces Green Investment

Wang, Mengyu; Wurgler, Jeffrey; Zhang, Hong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Government subsidies are often used to stimulate environment-friendly investment. We find that Chinese firms reduce green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air pollution that lead to fluctuations in subsidy...

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War and Science in Ukraine

Ganguli, Ina; Waldinger, Fabian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

more than 40%. Drawing upon the economics of science and innovation literature, we highlight three primary channels through …

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Moonshot : Public R&D and Growth

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 Streetlight Effect in Data-Driven Exploration

Hoelzemann, Johannes; Manso, Gustavo; Nagaraj, Abhishek; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine innovative contexts like scientific research or technical R&D where agents must search across many potential projects of varying and uncertain returns. Is it better to possess incomplete but accurate data on the value of some projects, or might there be cases where it is better to...

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The Importance of Financial Literacy : Opening a New Field

Lusardi, Annamaria; Mitchell, Olivia S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We undertake an assessment of our two decades of research on financial literacy, building on our empirical research and theoretical work casting financial knowledge as a form of investment in human capital. We also draw on recent data to determine who is the most - and least - financially savvy...

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Gender Gaps at the Academies

Card, David E.; Della Vigna, Stefano; Funk, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Historically, a large majority of the newly elected members of the National Academy of Science (NAS) and the American Academy of Arts and Science (AAAS) were men. Within the past two decades, however, that situation has changed, and in the last 3 years women made up about 40 percent of the new...

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