Akcigit, Ufuk; Pearce, Jeremy; Prato, Marta - 2022
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 …