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Learning Entrepreneurship from Other Entrepreneurs?

Guiso, Luigi - 2016

We document that individuals who grew up in areas with high density of firms are more likely, as adults, to become entrepreneurs, controlling for the density of firms in their current location. Conditional on becoming entrepreneurs, the same individuals are also more likely to be successful...

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The Effect of State Taxes on the Geographical Location of Top Earners : Evidence from Star Scientists

Moretti, Enrico - 2015

Using data on the universe of U.S. patents filed between 1976 and 2010, we quantify how sensitive is migration by star scientist to changes in personal and business tax differentials across states. We uncover large, stable, and precisely estimated effects of personal and corporate taxes on star...

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Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors

Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2013

patent citation data, using same-MSA and co-ethnicity as proxies for spatial and social proximity, respectively, to estimate …

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Connecting to Power : Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018

, where we merge: (i) firm-level balance sheet data; (ii) social security data on the universe of workers; (iii) patent data … from the European Patent Office; (iv) the national registry of local politicians; and (v) detailed data on local elections … in Italy. We find that firm-level political connections are widespread, especially among large firms, and that industries …

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The Diffusion of New Institutions : Evidence from Renaissance Venice's Patent System

Comino, Stefano - 2017

introduction of the first regularized patent system, which appeared in the Venetian Republic in 1474. We begin by developing a …

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Scientific Education and Innovation : From Technical Diplomas to University Stem Degrees

Bianchi, Nicola - 2019

This paper studies the effects of university STEM education on innovation and labor market outcomes by exploiting a change in enrollment requirements in Italian STEM majors. University-level scientific education had two direct effects on the development of patents by students who had acquired a...

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Linking Individuals Across Historical Sources : A Fully Automated Approach

Abramitzky, Ran - 2018

Linking individuals across historical datasets relies on information such as name and age that is both non-unique and prone to enumeration and transcription errors. These errors make it impossible to find the correct match with certainty. In the first part of the paper, we suggest a fully...

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Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows : The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens

Coppola, Antonio - 2020

Global firms finance themselves through foreign subsidiaries, often shell companies in tax havens, which obscures their nationality in aggregate statistics. We associate the universe of traded securities with their issuer's ultimate parent and restate bilateral investment positions to better...

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The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States

Meyer, Bruce - 2019

Recent research suggests that rates of extreme poverty, commonly defined as living on less than $2/person/day, are high and rising in the United States. We re-examine the rate of extreme poverty by linking 2011 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and Current Population...

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Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings

Fryer, Roland - 2018

Police use of force – particularly lethal force – is one of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century. To understand the nexus of race, criminal justice, and police brutality, academics and journalists have begun to amass impressive datasets on Officer-Involved-Shootings (OIS). I...

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