Kaltenberg, Mary; Jaffe, Adam B.; Lachman, Margie E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
patent data with information on inventor ages scraped from directory websites on the web for approximately 1.2 million U ….S.-resident inventors patenting between 1976 and 2017. Our results suggest that cross-sectional and within-inventor patenting rates are … similar, peaking at around the early 40s for both women and men. We find varying results for attributes of patents in relation …