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Los `Einsteins perdidos?: como se desperdicia el potencial de los ni?os mas brillantes de familias pobres y como solucionarlo / The 'lost Einsteins': how the potential of the brightest children of poor families is wasted and how to fix

Article by by Xavier Jaravel, Raj Chetty, John Van Reenen and Alexander Bell A new analysis shows how much the socioeconomic status of a student's family influences whether he becomes an inventor a... Read more...

11 February 2018

The Conversation
How talented kids from low-income families become America's 'lost Einsteins'

Article by Xavier Jaravel, Raj Chetty, John Van Reenen and Alexander Bell A new analysis shows how family background influences who grows up to invent. The key to turning things around? Expose kids to more ... Read more...

24 January 2018

LSE Business Review blog
Exposure to innovation influences who becomes an inventor

Exposing women, minorities, and low-income children to innovation may spark innovation and growth, write Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen.   Related publica... Read more...

05 January 2018

LiveMint
The Lost Einsteins

It is no secret that innovation is a powerful driver of growth in any modern economy. How does a country promote innovation activity? A recent study by economists Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana... Read more...

25 December 2017

Bloomberg.com
Nurture counts as much as nature in success

How about the notion that smarts determine life success? That idea too has come under assault from recent research. A recent paper by economists Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, and John... Read more...

12 December 2017

Education Week online
Can schools help uncover `Lost Einsteins? in next generation of inventors?

At nearly 326,000, the number of new U.S. patents has more than doubled from 2005 to 2015. But in every year since 2008, the patents granted to foreign inventors have outpaced those of U.S. inventors... Read more...

11 December 2017

Fortune.com
American inventors are mostly white men due to opportunity gaps, says Stanford `Lost Einsteins? study

There’s a lot of inequality affecting where innovation comes from, according to a new study from the Equality of Opportunity Project. “There are very large gaps in innovation by income, race, and g... Read more...

05 December 2017