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Offshoring and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

To study the short-run and long-run implications on wage inequality, we introduce directed technical change into a Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled product, each produced from a continuum of intermediates (tasks). Some of...

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Immigration and Production Technology

Lewis, Ethan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

immigration impacts innovation and firm formation. …

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Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda

Karlan, Dean; Jamison, Julian C.; Raffler, Pia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We evaluate the impact of a health information intervention implemented through mobile phones, using a clustered randomized control trial augmented by qualitative interviews. The intervention aimed to improve sexual health knowledge and shift individuals towards safer sexual behavior by...

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting...

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Does Knowledge Accumulation Increase the Returns to Collaboration?

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Goldfarb, Avi; Teodoridis, Florenta - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge frontier causing a sudden release of previously...

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Words in Patents: Research Inputs and the Value of Innovativeness in Invention

Packalen, Mikko; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the invention process promotes technological progress....

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Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture

Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This research examines the climatic origins of the diffusion of Neolithic agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a foraging society s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances...

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Intellectual Property Rights, the Pool of Knowledge, and Innovation

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are … lead to a lower pace of innovation, and more generally, that long run effects may be the opposite of the short run effects. …

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A Tale of Two Standards: Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry

Flamm, Kenneth - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

date, have largely concluded that patent pools have been associated with reduced rates of technical innovation in the … of innovation in product markets, rather than on indirect correlates of innovation (like patents), and by exploiting … product markets, and the rate of technical innovation in optical disc products. The analysis concludes that different …

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Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what we refer to as the canonical model, which elegantly and powerfully operationalizes the supply and demand for skills by assuming two...

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