diffusion and, to some extent, shaped the geography of innovation. …

of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … culturally closer to the French faced lower barriers to the adoption of new social norms and attitudes towards fertility control. …

Pilot and demonstration (P&D) projects are commonly deployed to catalyze early adoption of technology, but are poorly … examine whether they accelerate green building adoption. To identify effects of P&Ds on adoption, we develop a difference … adoption rates within markets affected by P&D projects. Further analyses examine mechanisms driving this effect. Subsequent …

diffusion channels and two types (national versus USPTO) of patent filings. Knowledge spillovers to EMEs accruing from (i) the … language, culture or geographical characteristics in knowledge diffusion. Overall, the breadth and depth of knowledge …

We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest … framework where migrants act as vectors of cultural diffusion, spreading new information, social norms and preferences …

This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents … over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit … significant biases in favor of girls and against African-American babies. A non-African-American baby relinquished for adoption …