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We analyze the gender gap in the success of patent application at the USPTO. We leverage quasi-exogeneous variation … from the random assignment of patent examiners within technology fields, allowing us to find the causal impact of examiner … patent approval. This gender gap does not seem to be impacted by the gender of the examiner of the application. When we focus …
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and stronger patent protections were positive, while greater economic prosperity somewhat led to complacency. …
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Do stronger intellectual property rights incentivize female participation in innovation? We provide new evidence on this question using a unique database of artificial intelligence patents publicly shared by the USPTO. Our identification strategy leverages China's WTO TRIPs accession, which led...
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In this Essay, I focus attention on and raise some questions about the treatment of women by three power centers: the corporate businesses that provide medical products to women, the regulatory governmental structures that exist to protect consumers from hazardous drugs and medical devices, and...
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This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the past hiring decisions of an establishment. Using...
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In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between...
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