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14. Dezember 2011

Seminar

Bombs, Brains, and Science: The Role of Human and Physical Capital for the Creation of Scientic Knowledge
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Termin

14. Dezember 2011
6.30 - 8.00 pm

Ort

Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
Room 3.3.002A
Mohrenstraße 58
10117 Berlin

Sprecher*innen

Fabian Waldinger (University of Warwick)

Abstract: This paper analyzes how human and physical capital affect the productivity of science departments. As inputs are often chosen on the basis of unobservable productivity factors and high quality scientists attract more funding for physical capital, I use two extensive shocks to identify the relative importance of human and physical capital. As a shock to physical capital I use department level destruction by Allied bombings during WWII. As human capital shock I use the dismissal of mostly Jewish scientists in Nazi Germany.

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