Encouraging inventors to disclose new inventions is an important economic justification for the patent system, yet the … technical information contained in patent applications is often inadequate and unclear. This paper proposes a novel approach to … measure disclosure in patent applications using algorithms from computation allinguistics. Borrowing methods from the …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …

terms of attrition, to grades received is not a gender-specific characteristic but more likely to reflect gender differences …

of economic benefit by patent applications filed and granted. Interrogating the effect of targeted funding at a … university level we find award of U-I targeted grants coincides with increased patent activity compared to non-targeted grants …. Exploring the dynamics of the relationship, we observe the effect of U-I targeted grants on patent activity is short lived at an …

to fight the disease. However, high vaccine prices enforced through patent protection are limiting vaccine expansion …, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. By limiting market power, patent buyouts could reduce vaccine prices and raise … HPV vaccination rates while keeping innovation incentives. We estimate the global patent buyout price as the present …

patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from … for confounding factors. The first patent application by a young firm is associated with significant growth in employment … three years ahead of the first patent application. However, we find no evidence of additional firm growth after patent …

There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …

We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target … not being "gender-blind" indicates that they disproportionately affect (the life expectancy of) the more vulnerable …

-median subjects. Similarly, gender differences in risk attitudes are considerably larger when restricting samples to subjects with …