German Jewish émigrés and US invention

American Economic Review

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3222-3255

  Moser, Petra ^a,b   Voena, Alessandra ^b,c   Waldinger, Fabian ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84907664556     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: 19447981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.10.3222     Document Type: Article

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