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The Impact of COVID-19 on US Firms
Bloom, Nicholas; Fletcher, Robert S.; Yeh, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use survey data on an opt-in panel of around 2,500 US small businesses to assess the impact of COVID-19. We find a …
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Managing to Learn
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning...
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Accelerating Innovation Ecosystems : The Promise and Challenges of Regional Innovation Engines
Guzman, Jorge; Murray, Fiona E. S.; Stern, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Motivated by the establishment of major U.S. Federal programs seeking to harness the potential of regional innovation ecosystems, we assess the promise and challenges of place-based innovation policy interventions. Relative to traditional research grants, place-based innovation policy...
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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science
Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
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Mapping the Knowledge Space : Exploiting Unassisted Machine Learning Tools
Teodoridis, Florenta; Lu, Jino; Furman, Jeffrey L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation. Progress on this topic has been inhibited by difficulties in measuring distance and movement in knowledge space. We describe a methodology that infers the mapping of the...
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Moonshot : Public R&D and Growth
Kantor, Shawn Everett; Whalley, Alexander T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...
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Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin
Davis, Steven J.; Krolikowski, Pawel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage …
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Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts : Aggregate vs. Aggregated Inflation Expectations
Dietrich, Alexander M.; Knotek, Edward S.; Myrseth, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper introduces a novel measure of consumer inflation expectations: We elicit and combine inflation forecasts across categories of personal consumption expenditure to form an aggregated measure of inflation expectations. Drawing on nearly 60,000 respondents, our data comprise the early...
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What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Guzman, Jakina Debnam; Fleurbaey, Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
data. We ask survey respondents what they had in mind regarding (i)-(iii) when answering commonly used--life satisfaction …
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What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys
Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Measurement errors are often a large source of bias in survey data. Lack of knowledge of the determinants of such … respondent's degree of cooperation with the survey overall. We provide evidence on how survey design choices affect reporting … errors. Our findings help survey users to gauge the reliability of their data and to devise estimation strategies that can …
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