Inclusive Productivity Network

Super interesting! "Cataloging Growth: A Re-Evaluation of 1900–1990" by Bäcker-Peral and Wittenbrink. "...substantially lower goods inflation than conventional deflators, and consequently implies much faster real economic growth..." conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...

Food for thought! "The Unintended Entrepreneurial Returns To University Grants" by Daniel Gros, Giorgio Presidente, and Thomas Schwab. "This paper asks whether university-wide public investments build entrepreneurial capacity." iep.unibocconi.eu/working-pape...

Super interesting! "Winners and Losers: Competition, Creative Destruction, and Labor Income Risk" by Green, Kogan, Papanikolaou, and Schmidt. "...we find that technology-driven creative destruction in the product market passes through to worker earnings." conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...

Super interesting! "How is Labor Demand Changing as AI Improves? New Global Evidence" by Sakai Ando, Divya Kirti, Willa Lin, and Assyifa Szami Ilman. www.imf.org/en/publicati...

Super interesting! "Technology Bottlenecks: Measuring Where AI Could Raise the Value of Work It Cannot Yet Do" by Soumitra Shukla. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Food for thought! "HouseholdBench: Evaluating Large Language Models as Predictors of Household Economic Behavior" by Jin Huang, Diego Ferreras Garrucho, Yutong Xie, Walter M. Yuan, Qiaozhu Mei, Chen Lian, Jonathon Hazell arxiv.org/pdf/2610.07563

Food for thought! "Equality of Opportunity vs Equality of Outcomes: A Theory of Optimal Predistribution" by Raj Chetty, Henrik Kleven, Damián Vergara, and Danny Yagan. conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...

Super interesting! "The Supply of Expertise: New Technologies, New Skills, and Worker Impacts" by Salomons, vom Baur, and Zierahn-Weilage. The paper highlights "the central role of within-occupation skill supply adjustments — not just educational attainment" www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

This looks like a must-read! "Rethinking Innovation: How Knowledge-Sharing Organizations Are Shaping the Twenty-First Century" by Jean Tirole Josh Lerner. amzn.to/4i2J9tp

Food for thought! "How employment is changing at Anthropic" by Nathan Wilmers, Regina Catipon, Maxim Massenkoff, and Peter McCrory. "...Anthropic could be a leading indicator of how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy." www.anthropic.com/research/emp...

Food for thought! "The Distribution of Automation Rents with Centralized Bargaining" by Pietro Reichlin. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1kbcd...

Super interesting! "How Knowledge Crosses Borders: Evidence from Semiconductor Manufacturing" by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Réka Juhász, Giulia Lo Forte, and Jeff Thurk "cross-border learning is an important feature of modern semiconductor manufacturing..." bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress....

Highly relevant! "The Commoditization of Labor" by Masao Fukui, Emi Nakamura, and Jón Steinsson. "Commoditization of labor drives down worker bargaining power: anyone can do the job, implying workers are disposable..." www.nber.org/papers/w35815

Super interesting! "The Effects of U.S. Public R&D on Global Growth" by Gustavo De Souzaa, Andrew J. Fieldhouseb, Karel Mertensc, Ishan B. Nathd, Valerie A. Ramey. "This paper provides the first causal estimates of the global social returns to U.S. public R&D." conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...

Super interesting! "Investing in Human Capital Incubation" by Seung Hyeong Lee, Bryan Seegmiller, Yufeng Wu, and Miao Ben Zhang "firms’ intangible investments raise their employees’ portable human capital, designating these firms as “human capital incubators.”" conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...

Highly relevant! "Generative AI and the Limits of Productivity Measurement in the System of National Accounts" by Jim Tebrake and Erich Stassner. www.imf.org/en/publicati...

Food for thought! "The Value of Codifying Organizational Knowledge" by Martin Beraja and Eduard Talamàs. conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...

Highly relevant! "Dictators, Democracies, and Discoveries: Political Institutions and the Creation of Knowledge" by Hager, Radde, Schwarz, and Waldinger. "Countries with high-quality institutions build larger academic sectors and produce more scientific output" conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...

Food for thought! "The plunging price of thought" by Luke Emberson and David Roodman. "Over the past three years, the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen an average of some 47% per quarter." epoch.ai/publications...

Highly relevant! "Unbundling Labor" by Chris Edmond and Simon Mongey. "Why is there so much wage inequality within occupations? Why has the overall level of within-occupation wage inequality risen?" www.nber.org/papers/w35783

Super interesting! "Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting" by Autor, Rodchenko, Martin, Iscenko, Strand, Pearl, and Ferere. www.nber.org/papers/w35720

📢 #CallForPapers - 27th CEPR-JIE Conference on Applied Industrial Organization 📆27-28 May 2027 | 📍 @tilburg-university.bsky.social ⌛Deadline: 22 November Organisers: @florianederer.bsky.social, @kleintob.bsky.social, Jeanine Miklós-Thal, & Nicola Pavanini ow.ly/WgWU50ZP5Y3 @erc.europa.eu

Super interesting! "The End of Oil" by Ryan Kellogg. "Even as global oil demand has increased in recent years, it is plausible to envision scenarios in which clean energy technologies or climate policies drive demand to essentially zero by the century’s end." www.restud.com/wp-content/u...

Super interesting! "Research and Innovation Careers Observatory 2026: Key Indicators on Talent, Mobility and Working Conditions" (OECD) www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Highly relevant! "The Measurement Revolution? Credible Measurement and Inference in the Age of AI" by Melissa Dell and Ashesh Rambachan. "We argue that credible inference with AI-generated variables requires appropriately designed validation..." www.nber.org/papers/w35744

Food for thought! "A transformative AI strategy for Europe" by various high‑level authors and advisors. transformative-ai.eu/download/a_t...

Super interesting! "Creative Destruction in a Data Economy" by Erwan Morellec and Francesca Zucchi. "We study how data and artificial intelligence (AI) shape innovation, firm dynamics, and growth." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Super interesting! "Agency: The Psychological History of Human Progress" by Martin E. P. Seligman. "...a landmark work spanning ancient Greece to the age of AI that identifies agency—the fusion of efficacy, optimism, and imagination—as the hidden engine of human progress..." amzn.to/4yuc2VV

Food for thought! "Firm Pay and Consumption Inequality" by Sigurd Galaasen, Andreas R. Kostøl, and Michael Simmons. www.andreaskostol.no/public/GKS.pdf

Very valuable! "Can machines replace human workers? Notes on agency, automation, and AI," Fernandez Macias "This paper proposes a conceptual framework for analysing the automation of human labour, with particular attention to artificial intelligence." publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

Super interesting! "What Does Venture Capital Actually Finance? Scale and Structure around the World" by Santiago Reyes, Kianna Freeman, Pablo Hernando-Kaminsky, Jeremias Huber, and Paolo Mauro. openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...

Thought-provoking! "Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity" by Claudia Goldin. "Drawing on decades of her own groundbreaking research, Claudia Goldin provides a fresh, in-depth look at the diverse experiences of college-educated women..." amzn.to/4ikyJam

Very valuable! "Investment Policy Framework for Digital Transformation" (OECD) "The OECD Investment Policy Framework for Digital Transformation aims to help governments promote private investment that supports digital transformation." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Highly relevant! "Innovation Cluster Ranking 2026" (World Intellectual Property Organization) "Each year, the Global Innovation Index (GII) ranks the top 100 innovation clusters worldwide..." www.wipo.int/web-publicat...

Super interesting! "Innovation, Diffusion through Technology Standards and the Value of the Firm" by Antonin Bergeaud, Julia Schmidt, and Riccardo Zago. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ouia9...

Highly relevant! "The Economics of Transformative AI," edited by Agrawal, Brynjolfsson, and Korinek. "This book brings together sixteen research studies from top economists that look closely at how transformative AI reshapes everything from innovation...to inequality..." amzn.to/4cqEtM3

Super interesting! "Europe’s long-term care gap: longevity risk and health uncertainty" by Anna Bahí, Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, Maria Catarina Louro, and Alexandre Mendonça. www.bruegel.org/working-pape...

Very valuable! "Mismatch in the 21st century: An overview" by Luca Coraggio, Monica Langella, Armando Miano, Marco Pagano, Marco S. Petterson, Vincenzo Pezone, and Annalisa Scognamiglio. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Super interesting! "The Crisis of the Tax State Revisited: Artificial Intelligence, Business Conflict, and Digital Fiscal Capacity" by Jacob Edenhofer and Ben Ansell. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Super interesting! "Who Pays for Unions?" by Samuel Dodini, Anna Stansbury, and Alexander Willén. The Quarterly Journal of Economics: academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... Ungated version: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Super interesting! "What Work Does Generative AI Do?" by Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin, David Deming, Tyler Schumacher. "We measure how workers use genAI for their jobs in a nationally representative survey linking genAI adoption to detailed occupations and tasks." drive.google.com/file/d/1bJm0...

Looking forward to reading this book! "The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth: How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics" by Jeanna Smialek. amzn.to/4cTzUtN

Food for thought! "Who Takes the Hit? The Uneven Impacts of Generative AI on Labor Demand Across Countries" by Jingyun Huang, Yan Liu, He Wang, and Shu Yu. "Has generative AI begun to displace workers globally, or only in high-income countries?" thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/07f7f...

Highly relevant! "Twin Transition and Productivity Growth: Why Intangible Capital Matters" by Ettore Gallo, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, and Iris Smiderle. www.productivity.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Food for thought! "Incubators and accelerators for public sector innovation: Helping governments fast-track solutions for innovation challenges" (OECD) www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Super interesting! "The Global Landscape of National AI Strategies" by Roxana Radu. "This paper explores how governments around the world are steering the adoption and development of artificial intelligence (AI) through their national strategies." thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/f74e8...

Food for thought! "Market power, growth, and wealth inequality" by Giammario Impullitti and Pontus Rendahl. 23cbebb7-8e0e-4817-ac9c-abea7d6f15ba.filesusr.com/ugd/209853_f...

Thought‑Provoking: A Good Summer Read! "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" by Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti. amzn.to/4xdpw8k

Food for thought! "Labor Market Power with Worker and Firm Heterogeneity" by David W. Berger, Kyle F. Herkenhoff, Jaehun Jeong, and Simon Mongey. www.nber.org/papers/w35640

Highly relevant! "Immiserizing Automation" by Vladimir Asriyan, Hugo Reichardt, and Sandro Shelegia. "Our main result is that automation of junior tasks can be immiserizing: when its cost savings are small, automation lowers long-run output." hugoreichardt.com/pdf/immiseri...