US invention has become increasingly concentrated around major tech centers since the 1970s, with implications for how much cities across the country share in concomitant local …
C Peng, H Xu - Asian Economic Papers, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
While universities play a pivotal role in fostering the growth and progress of their surrounding cities, the extent of this influence remains underexplored and warrants deeper …
MJ Andrews, A Whalley - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Innovation has long been seen as central to long-term regional growth. Due to the absence of comprehensive data on the geography of innovation covering long time periods …
Y Su, Y Hua, L Deng - Regional science and urban economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Micro-level evidence on the migration decision and locational choice of high-skill workers remain scarce in developing economies. This paper studies whether high-skill individuals in …
Innovation activities of firms tend to be highly persistent. Yet, little is still known about potential spatial contingencies affecting the degree of persistence. This paper analyses the …
T Babina, ST Howell - Journal of Labor Economics, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper offers the first study of how changes in corporate R&D investment affect labor mobility. We show that increases in R&D spur employee departures to join start-ups' …
B Balsmeier, L Fleming, S Lück - American Economic Review: Insights, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We propose a new method to estimate and isolate the localization of knowledge spillovers due to the physical presence of a person, using after-application but pre-grant deaths of …
We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to Republicans) after the 2008 election of Obama but less likely after …
Does social distancing harm innovation? We estimate the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)—policies that restrict interactions in an attempt to slow the spread of …