Changes in the demographics of American inventors, 1870–1940
We assemble a novel dataset linking inventors listed in the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Patents to Population Census records spanning 1870 to 1940. We find that inventors are not a random subset of the population. They differ in some unsurprising ways in that they tend to be older, whiter,...
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| Language: | English |
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Academic Press Inc.
2019
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