available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to …

In order to induce farmers to adopt a productive new agricultural technology, we apply simple and complex contagion … technology. A randomized controlled trial compares these theory-driven network targeting approaches to simpler strategies that … between households) to identify seed farmers. Our results indicate that technology diffusion is characterized by a complex …

technology was a major part of the government response. The U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) led a major …

In this paper, we extend the growth model to include firm-specific technology capital and use it to assess the gains … from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm's technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research … and development, brands, and organization capital. What distinguishes technology capital from other forms of capital is …

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

as they are used in the countries in our sample. We denote these time lags as technology usage lags and compare them with … lags in real GDP per capita. We find that (i) technology usage lags are large, often comparable to lags in real GDP per … they replace combined with the usage lags that we document, lead us to infer that technology usage disparities might …

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 … required university-level education, but did not focus on patenting …

and technology differences across both goods and production stages. We estimate technology and trade costs via the …

revolutions. In the model, the average productivity of a new technology is uncertain and subject to learning. During technological …