We identify a positive causal effect of healthy working environments on corporate innovation, using the staggered passage of U.S. state-level smoke-free laws that ban smoking in workplaces. We find a significant increase in patents and patent citations for firms headquartered in states that have...

We examine the effect of pay discrimination on corporate innovation and inventor productivity using difference-in-differences regressions based on the staggered passage of state-level pay secrecy laws that mitigate pay discrimination. We find significant increases in the quantity and quality of...

The transparency of the information environment in which US firms operate, as measured by the strength of state-level freedom of information (FOI) laws, is negatively associated with industrial pollution. Not only do the emissions of firms decrease as FOI laws become stronger, the overall level...