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Assistant Professor at Cardiff Business School
About me
I am a research economist at the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion at the LSE. I received my Ph.D. degree in Economics in 2022 from the University of Illinois. I am an applied microeconomist with a focus on innovation, gender, and economic history.
Job market paper
Property rights and innovation dynamism: the role of women inventors
How do stronger property rights for disadvantaged groups affect innovation? I study the impact of strengthening property rights for women on US innovation by analyzing the Married Women’s Property Acts that granted equal property rights to women starting in 1845 in New York State. I use the universe of granted patents from 1790 until 1901 and exploit the staggered adoption of the laws over time across states. Strengthening women’s property rights led to a 39% increase in patenting activity among women in the long run, with effects peaking about a decade after the laws were introduced. Importantly, female innovations were not of lower quality (as measured by a novelty index based on patent text analysis) and there were no negative effects on male innovation. Hence, as well as improving equity the laws increased aggregate innovation. I show that the main mechanism was through innovation incentives rather than an increase in human capital, labour force participation or relieving financial frictions.
Publications and papers
Publications
The interaction of real and financial markets in the global economy: What role does China play? (2019) Handbook of Global Financial Markets Transformations, Dependence, and Risk Spillovers (with Sumru Altug and Cem Cakmakli).
Working papers
Female entrepreneurs of the 19th century in the United States, co-authored with Richard Hornbeck, Martin Rotemberg, Anders Humlum.
Mapping international technological trajectories: evidence from multiple patent offices over four centuries, co-authored with John Van Reenen, Antonin Bergeaud, and Philippe Aghion.
Brexit and the falling innovation dynamism, co-authored with Ralf Martin and Esther Boler.
