Replication data for: German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Petra Moser; Alessandra Voena; Fabian Waldinger
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Project Citation:
Moser, Petra, Voena, Alessandra, and Waldinger, Fabian. Replication data for: German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112697V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany
revolutionized US science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical
innovation in the United States, we compare changes in patenting
by US inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other
German chemists. Patenting by US inventors increased by 31 percent
in émigré fields. Regressions which instrument for émigré fields with
pre-1933 fields of dismissed German chemists confirm a substantial
increase in US invention. Inventor-level data indicate that émigrés
encouraged innovation by attracting new researchers to their fields,
rather than by increasing the productivity of incumbent inventors.
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
L65 Chemicals; Rubber; Drugs; Biotechnology; Plastics
N62 Economic History: Manufacturing and Construction: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
O31 Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O34 Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
L65 Chemicals; Rubber; Drugs; Biotechnology; Plastics
N62 Economic History: Manufacturing and Construction: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
O31 Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O34 Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
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