We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy
during the long nineteenth century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. States …

The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the
literature present context‐dependent and data‐driven results which are challenging to …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss
the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing …

We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct
productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To …

We examine the golden age of US innovation by undertaking a major data collection
exercise linking historical US patents to state and county-level aggregates and matching …

Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative
sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of …

Innovation is central to long-run economic growth. This chapter summarizes the state of the
literature on the economics of innovation, highlighting open policy questions. We first …

How does inventors' migration affect international talent allocation, knowledge diffusion, and
productivity growth? To answer this question, I build a novel two-country innovation-led …

Highly skilled workers are not only a crucial and relatively scarce input into firms' productive
and innovative processes, but are also a critical resource determining competitive …

Although acculturation psychology is extensively studied in the social sciences, research
progress has slowed due to overused methodologies and theories and emerging …