Politics and Administration: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office, 1837-2015

• In Event: Bureaucratic structure

Brief Overview

How has institutional development affected administrative outputs? We study this question using data on the seven million patents issued between 1837 and 2015 and supplement them with administrative data on the composition of Patent Office personnel.

Authors

• Daniel J. Moskowitz, University of Chicago

• Jon C. Rogowski, Harvard University