| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP12496 |
| DP12496 The Social Origins of Inventors | |
| Ufuk Akcigit; Philippe Aghion; Otto Toivanen; Ari Hyytinen | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-12-12 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In this paper we merge three datasets - individual income data, patenting data, and IQ data - to analyze the determinants of an individual's probability of inventing. We find that: (i) parental income matters even after controlling for other background variables and for IQ, yet the estimated impact of parental income is greatly diminished once parental education and the individual's IQ are controlled for; (ii) IQ has both a direct effect on the probability of inventing an indirect impact through education. The effect of IQ is larger for inventors than for medical doctors or lawyers. The impact of IQ is robust to controlling for unobserved family characteristics by focusing on potential inventors with brothers close in age. We also provide evidence on the importance of social family interactions, by looking at biological versus non-biological parents. Finally, we find a positive and significant interaction effect between IQ and father income, which suggests a misallocation of talents to innovation. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics ; Macroeconomics and Growth ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Inventors Innovation Social mobility Iq Education Parental background |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12496 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541307 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ufuk Akcigit,Philippe Aghion,Otto Toivanen,et al. DP12496 The Social Origins of Inventors. 2017. |
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