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What explains the current low rate of employment in the US? While there has been substantial debate over this question in recent years, we believe that considerable added insight can be derived by focusing on changes in the labor market at the turn of the century. In particular, we argue that in...
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One of the great puzzles of Sub-Saharan African economic history is that wheeled transportation was barely used prior to the colonial period. Instead, head porterage was the main method of transportation. The consensus among historians is that this was a rational adaption to the underlying...
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distinguish between publications indicating and not indicating any research funding support. My estimates indicate that mortality … rates: (1) are unrelated to the (current or lagged) stock of publications that had not received research funding; (2) are … only weakly inversely related to the contemporaneous stock of published articles that received research funding; and (3 …
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research activity of 661 faculty scientists at one institution over a 30-year period to explore the tradeoff between …
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science and technology policy. This paper discusses several policies that U.S. policy makers might consider in responding to … the changing global world of science and technology. These include aligning immigration policies more closely to the …
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call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled workers rests in the hands of employer firms … to fostering innovation. …
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-year gained) of pharmaceutical innovation was about $12,900. …
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This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial … gender differences in preferences to promote technology adoption absent broader social change. …
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six broad S&T areas (bio/chem/med, information technology, nanotechnology, semiconductors, other science, and other …Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often … important because of the increasing closeness of commercial technologies to cutting edge science. A "corporate-academic" model …
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predicting persistence of impacts of temporary technology adoption subsidies, in particular due to learning effects. …
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