Recombinant Innovation, Novel Ideas, and the Start of Nobel Prize-Winning Work

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ham, John C.; Quistorff, Brian; Weinberg, Bruce A.
• 署名单位: New York University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12768
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 965-979
• 关键词: unemployment-insurance; disadvantaged women; increasing returns; duration; models; AGE; selection; DYNAMICS; IMPACT

摘要

We draw on a recombinant view of innovation, where being in a new location and/or multiple locations leads to exposure to novel combinations of ideas that increase the creativity of top scientists. Using a rich, unique data set we helped assemble, we estimate the empirical relationship between being in a new location and/or multiple locations and the expected interval before an eventual Nobel laureate (ENL) commences their prize-winning work. We find that being in a new location and in multiple locations are substantially and significantly associated with a shorter expected interval before ENLs commence their prize-winning work.