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Structural Change Within versus Across Firms : Evidence from the United States
Ding, Xiang; Fort, Teresa C.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …
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What Drives (Gaps in) Scientific Study Participation? Evidence from a COVID-19 Antibody Survey
Dutz, Deniz; Greenstone, Michael; Hortaçsu, Ali; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Underrepresentation of minority and poor households in scientific studies undermines policy decisions and public health. We study data from a serological study that randomized participation incentives. Participation is low (6% at $0, 17% at $100, 29% at $500) and unequal: minority and poor...
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Cassatts in the Attic
Koffi, Marlène; Marx, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We analyze more than 70 million scientific articles to characterize the gender dynamics of commercializing science. The double-digit gender gap we report is explained neither by the quality of the science nor its ex-ante commercial potential, and is widest among papers with female last authors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322704
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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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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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Intangible Capital and Measured Productivity
McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2017
total factor productivity (TFP) coincidentally with large changes in hours and investment. This mismeasurement leaves …
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Intangible Capital and Productivity : An Exploration on a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms
Bontempi, Maria Elena - 2008
The paper examines the size and productivity of total intangible capital relative to total tangible capital for a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464537
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The Productivity J-Curve : How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies
Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2018
how this leads to an underestimation of productivity growth in the early years of a new GPT, and how later, when the … benefits of intangible investments are harvested, productivity growth will be overestimated. Our model generates a Productivity … J-Curve that can explain the productivity slowdowns often accompanying the advent of GPTs, as well as the increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480800
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Why Did U.S. Market Hours Boom in the 1990s?
McGrattan, Ellen - 2006
understanding the movements in hours and productivity. Expensed investments are expenditures that increase future profits but, by … progress during the 1990s, causing a boom in market hours and actual productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466623
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Intangible Capital and Economic Growth
Corrado, Carol A. - 2006
becomes the unambiguously dominant source of growth in labor productivity. The role of multifactor productivity is …
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