Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge

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Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Alessandra Voena, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

"German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention" abstract After Hitler took power in 1933, scientists who had at least one Jewish grandparent were dismissed from German universities.  Many of them moved to the United States; their patents make it possible to trace research fields in which U.S. invention benefited from the arrival of German-Jewish émigrés.  Difference-in-differences analyses compare changes…