How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … in talent, frictions, and preferences. We link the model to micro-level data from Denmark and uncover a host of facts … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study …

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 …

through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a modified version of the Schumpeterian theory of firm evolution …

library productivity measures and because of the availability of data to implement the framework. Preliminary estimates are …

Differences in labor compensation across 31 large public library systems are examined based on the author's interview …

The operations of 31 large public library systems across the country are compared using information from the author' s … be associated with differences in library services and demographics. The number of materials acquired per capita has a … strong impact on library use …

We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on …

book prices for libraries and their patrons. Using data on over 8,000 library systems for 2013-2019, we measure the impacts … library market, and we rationalize the status quo book holdings with a librarian utility function that attaches higher weights …