Jaravel, Xavier, Petkova, Neviana and Bell, Alex
(2018)
Team-specific capital and innovation.
American Economic Review, 108 (4-5).
pp. 1034-73.
ISSN 0002-8282
Abstract
We establish the importance of team-specific capital in the typical inventor's career. Using administrative tax and patent data for the population of US patent inventors from 1996 to 2012, we find that an inventor's premature death causes a large and long-lasting decline in their co-inventor's earnings and citation-weighted patents (–4 percent and –15 percent after 8 years, respectively). After ruling out firm disruption, network effects, and top-down spillovers as main channels, we show that the effect is driven by close-knit teams and that team-specific capital largely results from an "experience" component increasing collaboration value over time.
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Article
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| Official URL: |
https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/aer |
| Additional Information: |
© 2018 American Economic Association |
| Divisions: |
Economics |
| Subjects: |
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: |
J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation; Human Capital; Retirement > J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc.
M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting > M5 - Personnel Economics > M54 - Labor Management (team formation, worker empowerment, job design, tasks and authority, work arrangemetns, job satisfaction)
O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development > O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development > O34 - Intellectual Property Rights: National and International Issues |
| Date Deposited: |
26 Apr 2018 08:46 |
| Last Modified: |
29 Mar 2024 00:57 |
| Funders: |
Kauffman Foundation |
| URI: |
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/87653 |
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