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The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks
Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969214
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Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa
Robinson, James Alan; Chaves, Isaías N.; Engerman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969217
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The Impact of Biomedical Knowledge Accumulation on Mortality: A Bibliometric Analysis of Cancer Data
Lichtenberg, Frank - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
I examine the relationship across diseases between the long-run growth in the number of publications about a disease and the change in the age-adjusted mortality rate from the disease. The diseases analyzed are almost all the different forms of cancer, i.e. cancer at different sites in the body...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969223
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Exploring Tradeoffs in the Organization of Scientific Work: Collaboration and Scientific Reward
Bikard, Michaël; Murray, Fiona E.; Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
efficiency of collaboration and the credit allocation that arises after the completion of collaborative work. In this paper, we … collaboration and reward at the individual faculty level and to infer critical parameters in the organization of scientific work. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969275
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Immigration, International Collaboration, and Innovation: Science and Technology Policy in the Global Economy
Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
particular made it a special partner for the US in scientific work. These developments have substantial implications for US … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969311
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969384
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The Effect of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Longevity: Patient-Level Evidence from the 1996-2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and Linked Mortality Public-Use Files
Lichtenberg, Frank - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We investigate the effect of the vintage (year of FDA approval) of the prescription drugs used by an individual on his or her survival and medical expenditure. When we only control for age, sex, and interview year, we estimate that a one-year increase in drug vintage increases life expectancy by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969419
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Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves
Miller, Grant; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950660
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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property: Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
six broad S&T areas (bio/chem/med, information technology, nanotechnology, semiconductors, other science, and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950753
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Subsidies and the Persistence of Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
Carter, Michael R.; Laajaj, Rachid; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
predicting persistence of impacts of temporary technology adoption subsidies, in particular due to learning effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950768