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America, Jump-Started: World War II R&D and the Takeoff of the US Innovation System
The American Economic Review, 2023 During World War II, the US government’s Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) supported one of the largest public investments in applied R&D in US history. Using data on all OSRD-funded invention, we show this shock had a formative impact
D. Gross, B. Sampat
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VarR controls colonization and virulence in the marine macroalgal pathogen Nautella italica R11
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 There is increasing evidence to suggest that macroalgae (seaweeds) are susceptible to infectious disease. However, to date, little is known about the mechanisms that facilitate the colonization and virulence of microbial seaweed pathogens.
Melissa R. Gardiner +7 more
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Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia
Social Science Research Network, 2023 This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian social security records, we find that city council dismissals (CCDs)
Alessandra Fenizia, Raffaele Saggio
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COVID-19 as External Enabler of entrepreneurship practice and research
Business Research Quarterly, 2021 For decades, entrepreneurship and strategy research has been dominated by agent-centric and inward-looking theoretical perspectives. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the limits of this stance, as its influence on business has been both enormous
P. Davidsson +2 more
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Uneven domestic tourism demand in times of pandemic
Tourism Economics, 2022 This study investigates the short-run impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the number of domestic overnight stays at the regional level in the summer season 2020.
M. Falk, Eva Hagsten, Xiang Lin
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020 Does economic activity move away from areas that are at high risk of recurring shocks? We examine this question in the context of floods, which displaced more than 650 million people worldwide in the last 35 years.
Adriana Kocornik-Mina +3 more
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Papers in Regional Science, 2021 The aim of the paper is to shed light on the role played by regional knowledge bases in Industry 3.0 in fostering new technologies in Industry 4.0 in European regions (NUTS3) over the period 1991-2015.
Matteo Laffi, R. Boschma
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Understanding the Effects of Granting Work Permits to Undocumented Immigrants
Journal of Labor EconomicsThis paper studies the legalization of 600,000 non-EU immigrants by the unexpectedly elected Spanish government following the terrorist attacks of 2004. By comparing non-EU to EU immigrants we first estimate that the policy did not lead to magnet effects.
Ferran Elias +2 more
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From Polluting to Green Jobs: A Seamless Transition in the U.S.?
IMF Working Papers, 2022 What are the implications of the needed climate transition for the potential reallocation of the U.S. labor force? This paper dissects green and polluting jobs in the United States across local labor markets, industries and at the household-level.
Ippei Shibata +2 more
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Land Use Policy and Employment Growth- Evidence from China
Social Science Research Network, 2022 This paper examines the causal effect of land use policy on employment growth in Chinese cities. We find that a stricter Floor Area Ratio Regulation (FARR) leads to a reduction in employment growth in Chinese citiesa one standard deviation reduction in ...
Qiao Wang +3 more
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