use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically discriminate' among workers. The pure … credential value of education will depend on how quickly firms learn. To obtain information on employer learning, we work with a … education. The time path of the coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable provides information about the rate at …

We measure the effects of parental education on the education profile of wages. The analysis uses sibling pairs from … holding family background constant. We obtained mixed evidence on whether parental education raises the return to education …

education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the …

model. We then turn to models of individual earnings that are based on wages, employment, job mobility, and hours. These … influence earnings through employment, job mobility, general productivity, or hours. Finally, we consider models of lifetime …

In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and …

This report surveys the empirical literature from economics and related fields on patents and innovation. In particular …, it reviews and synthesizes the empirical evidence on patents and first-generation innovation, the disclosure function of … patents, and patents and follow-on innovation. The main results are summarized in fifteen charts …

World War II innovation model in other crises. In this essay we describe exactly how it worked. We do so first through a … general overview of how OSRD approached several questions that may confront any crisis innovation effort: priority setting … innovation policy different, how crisis innovation policy approaches may vary, and the limits to generalizing from World War II …

-produced penicillin, antimalarials, and a flu vaccine. We draw on this episode to discuss the economics of crisis innovation. Since the …