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Political Sentiment and Innovation : Evidence from Patenters

Engelberg, Joseph; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to … strong among politically active partisans and are present even within firms over time. Patenting by immigrant inventors …

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The Rise of American Ingenuity : Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2017

We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking historical U ….S. patents to state and county-level aggregates and matching inventors to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940. We identify a … macro and micro-level determinants. We find a positive relationship between innovation and drivers of regional performance …

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Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters and Marital Sorting : New Evidence from Imperial China

Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using status information based on the timing of marriage from family histories in Central China, already in the early 1500s it is the case that daughters from rich families attain higher...

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The Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1992

This paper analyzes the intergenerational mobility of immigrants. Using the 1940-1970 Censuses, the study reveals an important link between the earnings of immigrants and the earnings of their American-born children. Although there is some regression towards the mean, the earnings of...

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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility

Borjas, George J. - 1991

This paper analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. I assume that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic...

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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa

Alesina, Alberto - 2019

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence, using census data from 26 countries. First, we map and characterize the geography of IM. There is substantial variation both across and within countries with differences in literacy of the old...

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"And Yet It Moves" : Intergenerational Mobility in Italy

Acciari, Paolo - 2019

We link tax returns across two generations to provide the first estimate of intergenerational mobility in Italy based on administrative income data. Italy emerges as less immobile than previously depicted by studies using proxies for economic status or survey data with imputation procedures....

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Intergenerational Mobility

Cholli, Neil A.; Durlauf, Steven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This essay reviews the theory and empirics of intergenerational mobility. Our review draws on models and empirical analyses of classic and more recent work from both economics and sociology. We summarize models and the surrounding empirical evidence of two key sets of mechanisms: family factors...

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Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Lee, Chul-In - 2006

Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results, partly because of large sampling errors. By making more efficient use of the available information in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the...

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Borrowing Constraints, College Aid, and Intergenerational Mobility

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004

The current level and form of subsidization of college education is often rationalized by appeal to capital constraints on individuals. Because borrowing against human capital is difficult, capital constraints can lead to nonoptimal outcomes unless government intervenes. We develop a simple...

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