Episode 62: Elisabeth Perlman on Federal Funding, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

Elisabeth Perlman is an Economist at the U.S. Census Bureau.

The paper discussed in this episode is ‘Cutting the Innovation Engine: How Federal Funding Shocks Affect University Patenting, Entrepreneurship, and Publications’, by Tania Babina, Alex Xi He, Sabrina T. Howell, Elisabeth Ruth Perlman, and Joseph Staudt. The paper was published at the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2023.