This dissertation is comprised of three chapters examining participation in and the direction of innovation in the United States. Chapter 1 details the creation of a novel data set …
A Aneja, O Reshef, G Subramani, W Louis - Unpublished paper, 2021 - sites.bu.edu
Women are underrepresented in STEM jobs despite making up over half of the collegeeducated workforce. This lack of representation extends to innovation, where it is …
G Subramani, A Aneja, O Reshef, WS Louis - 2021 - haas.berkeley.edu
We document that 85% of patent applications in the United States include no female inventors and ask: why are women underrepresented in innovation? We argue that …
J Choi - Available at SSRN 3975605, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
The purpose of this paper is to show the gender gap in the returns to patenting. Using the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)'s inventor and patent data from 2015 to …
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 …
O Reshef, A Aneja, G Subramani - Academy of Management …, 2021 - journals.aom.org
We document that 85% of patent applications in the United States include no female inventors and ask: why are women underrepresented in innovation? We argue that …
D Hegde, M Raj - Evidence from US Patent Examination (February …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
Does gender affect work quality and quantity? We study this question by leveraging the quasirandom assignment of patent applications to examiners, and micro-data on examiners' …
We explore the existence and causes of gender disparities in the patent examination process. We find that applications filed by female inventors are significantly less likely to …
We analyzed gender disparities in patenting by country, technological area, and type of assignee using the 4.6 million utility patents issued between 1976 and 2013 by the United …