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bias than to causal effects. Such selection problems have motivated a wave of econometric innovation that uses elements of …
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There are many reasons to want measures of countries' investments in human capital and especially their investments in formal education. We review the existing literature on the measurement of human capital. Broadly speaking, economists have proposed three approaches to the measurement of human...
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Household R&D (or household innovation) is an important source of innovation that has to date been largely overlooked … household activity and, more generally, of the overall landscape of innovation …
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This paper develops a framework for measuring digital services in the face of ongoing innovations in the delivery of content to consumers. We capture what Brynjolfsson and Saunders (2009) call "free goods" as the capital services generated by connected consumers' stocks of IT digital goods, a...
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We link USPTO patent data to U.S. Census Bureau administrative records on individuals and firms. The combined dataset provides us with a directory of patenting household inventors as well as a time-series directory of self-employed businesses tied to household innovations. We describe the...
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The 'quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality … is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share …
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Patent data have been widely used in research on technological innovation to characterize firms' locations as well as … the proximities among firms in knowledge space. Researchers could measure proximity among firms with a variety of measures …
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This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …
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In this paper, we put forward the idea of an innovation accounting framework and consider two main indicators based on … it: expected innovation and innovativeness. The framework is the analogue of the standard framework of economic growth … idea using data from the European Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1 and CIS2) and measuring innovation by the share of …
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Cellular telephone is an example of a new product that has significantly affected how Americans live. Since their introduction in 1983, cellular telephone adoption has grown at 25-35% per year such that at year end 1996 about 42 million cellular telephones are in use in the U.S. However,...
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