Jacob Moscona

Harvard University

1875 Cambridge Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture

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Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 15 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2025
Jacob Moscona and Karthik Sastry
Harvard University and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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inappropriate technology, technology diffusion, productivity gaps, agriculture, biotechnology, crop pests and pathogens

Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture

NBER Working Paper No. w33500
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 25 Feb 2025
Jacob Moscona and Karthik Sastry
Harvard University and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Age Set vs. Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in East Africa

Number of pages: 103 Posted: 12 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2024
Jacob Moscona and Awa Ambra Seck
Harvard University and Harvard University, Department of Economics
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social structure, age sets, financial transfers, pensions, child health

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Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

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Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 964/2024, HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute - Archive
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 26 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2024
Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Y. Yang
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Warwick - Department of Economics, Harvard University and Harvard University
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Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 25 Mar 2024
Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Y. Yang
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Warwick - Department of Economics, Harvard University and Harvard University
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appropriate technology, growth, spillovers, venture capital

Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

NBER Working Paper No. 32193
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 05 Mar 2024
Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Y. Yang
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Warwick - Department of Economics, Harvard University and Harvard University
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Flowers of Invention: Patent Protection and Productivity Growth in US Agriculture

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 20 Sep 2021
Jacob Moscona
Harvard University
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patents, agriculture, biotechnology, productivity

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Does Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from US Agriculture

Number of pages: 105 Posted: 16 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2022
Jacob Moscona and Karthik Sastry
Harvard University and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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climate change, innovation, adaptation

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Environmental Catastrophe and the Direction of Invention: Evidence from the American Dust Bowl

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 20 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2024
Jacob Moscona
Harvard University
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Innovation, environmental crisis, agriculture, Dust Bowl

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State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century

NBER Working Paper No. w21932
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 01 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2023
Daron Acemoglu, Jacob Moscona and James Robinson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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Foreign Political Risk and Technological Change

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 27 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2025
Joel P. Flynn, Antoine Levy, Jacob Moscona and Mai Wo
Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University and Yale University
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Political Risk, Innovation, Minerals, Technological Change, Geopolitics, Geoeconomics

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Case Studies of the Emulation of Chinese Entrepreneurial Business Models

HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute - Archive
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2024
Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Y. Yang
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Warwick - Department of Economics, Harvard University and Harvard University
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The Management of Aid and Conflict in Africa

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2024
Jacob Moscona
Harvard University
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Conflict, development aid, management, bureaucrats

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Specializing in Cities: Density and the Pattern of Trade

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Nov 2022
Antoine Levy and Jacob Moscona
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Harvard University
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Density, cities, trade, comparative advantage

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Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa

NBER Working Paper No. w24209
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 17 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2023
Jacob Moscona, Nathan Nunn and James Robinson
Harvard University, Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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Keeping it in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa

NBER Working Paper No. w23196
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 20 May 2023
Jacob Moscona, Nathan Nunn and James Robinson
Harvard University, Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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Food Policy in a Warming World

NBER Working Paper No. w32539
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Allan Hsiao, Jacob Moscona and Karthik Sastry
Princeton University, Harvard University and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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