Annual Report
The Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) thanks the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and, in particular, Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the USPTO, Andrei Iancu, for [...]
Opposition to Development or Opposition to Developers? Survey Evidence from Los Angeles County on Attitudes towards New Housing
Opposition to new housing at higher densities is a pervasive problem in planning. Such opposition constrains the housing supply and undermines both affordability and sustainability in growing metropolitan areas. Relatively [...]
The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Project
The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families living in high-poverty housing projects housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of [...]
Beyond Physicians: The Effect of Licensing and Liability Laws on the Supply of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
The increased use of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) represents an important option for increasing access to healthcare. I explore the effect of two types of laws on [...]
Spillover Effects of IP Protection in the Inter-war Aircraft Industry
Can granting IP protection to producers of one good affect the innovation rate in other related goods? To answer this question we exploit a unique policy experiment in the inter-war [...]
Liquidity, Leverage, and Regulation 10 Years After the Global Financial Crisis
The financial system has undergone far-reaching changes since the global financial crisis of 2008. We cast those changes in terms of shifts in the manner in which financial intermediaries manage [...]
The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors
The high-tech sector is increasingly concentrated in a small number of expensive cities, with the top ten cities in “Computer Science”, “Semiconductors” and “Biology and Chemistry”, accounting for 70%, 79% [...]
Fifteen years later: can residential mobility programs provide a long-term escape from neighborhood segregation, crime, and poverty?
We examined whether the Gautreaux residential mobility program, which moved poor black volunteer families who were living in inner-city Chicago into more-affluent and integrated neighborhoods, produced long-run improvements in the [...]
Competitive Effects of Scope of Practice Restrictions: Public Health or Public Harm?
The demand for health care and healthcare professionals is predicted to grow significantly over the next decade. Securing an adequate health care workforce is of primary importance to ensure the [...]
After the Panic: Are Financial Crises Demand or Supply Shocks? Evidence from International Trade
Are financial crises a negative shock to demand or a negative shock to supply? This is a fundamental question for both macroeconomics researchers and those involved in real-time policymaking, and [...]