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Public R&D Investments and Private Sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

Posted on January 30, 2014 by

From Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Danielle Li, and Bhaven Sampat: This paper measures the impact of public R&D investments on innovation by private sector firms. We quantify the returns to grant spending at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in … Continue reading →

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Do Tax Credits Stimulate R&D Spending? The Effect of the R&D Tax Credit in its First Decade

Posted on September 22, 2013 by

From Nirupama Rao: This paper examines the impact of the R&D tax credit between 1981-1991 using confidential IRS data from corporate tax returns. The key advances on previous work are an instrumental variables strategy based on tax law changes that addresses … Continue reading →

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State Incentives for Innovation, Star Scientists and Jobs: Evidence from Biotech

Posted on July 31, 2013 by

From Enrico Moretti and Dan Wilson: We evaluate the effects of state-provided financial incentives for biotech companies, which are part of a growing trend of placed-based policies designed to spur innovation clusters. We estimate that the adoption of subsidies for biotech … Continue reading →

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Punishment Severity & Criminal Activity

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

Here’s an interesting paper by Benjamin Hansen on punishment severity and deterrence. I exploit discrete thresholds that determine both the current as well potential future punishments for first-time and repeat offenders. Specifically, in WA a blood alcohol content (BAC) measured above … Continue reading →

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