Occupational, Industry, and Geographic Exposure to Artificial Intelligence: A Novel Dataset and Its Potential Uses
Edward Felten, Manav Raj, and Robert Seamans
Introducing a novel dataset for analyzing AI’s impact on workers, firms, and markets.
Category: Research
Representation Is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity
Timothy Simcoe, et al.
New research showing that a supportive organizational culture, not just representation, is necessary for increasing diversity in an organization’s leadership.
Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey
Kristina McElheran et al.
A new survey module intended to complement and expand research on the causes and consequences of advanced technology adoption by analyzing the 2018 Annual Business Survey.
Twisting the Demand Curve: Digitalization and the Older Workforce
Kristina McElheran et al.
New research exploring the age-related effects of firms’ software investments on employee wages.
Crisis Innovation
Tania Babina, Asaf Bernstein, and Filippo Mezzanotti
New research on the effect of the Great Depression on patenting and the role of financial crises as both destructive and creative forces for innovation.
Investor Tax Credits and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. States
Filippo Mezzanotti et al.
New research on the effects of angel investor tax credits on entrepreneurial activity, raising concerns about using investor subsidies to promote entrepreneurship.
Patenting Inventions or Inventing Patents? Strategic Use of Continuations at the USPTO
Cesare Righi and Timothy Simcoe
New research analyzing the effect of standard essential patents (SEPs) on patent continuations, showing opportunistic behavior in the filing of continuations after the disclosure of SEPs.
Declining Industrial Dynamism
James Bessen, Erich Denk, Joowon Kim, and Cesare Righi
New research shows the effects of investments in IT on reducing turnover among dominant firms.
Perpetuating Inequality: What Salary History Bans Reveal About Wages
James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng
New research shows the positive effects of laws prohibiting employers from asking about job applicants’ prior salaries in reducing pay gaps for women and minorities.
Firm-Level Automation: Evidence from the Netherlands
James Bessen, Maarten Goos, Anna Salomons, and Wiljan van den Berge
New research on evidence of effects of automation on firms and workers in the Netherlands.