Hubs

Research paper on the effect of hubs in Metropolitan Statistical areas

Resources

• Yael Hochberg and Fehder (2015), located in dropbox
• US Census Bureau data on employment by MSA: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_14_5YR_B23027&prodType=table
• USPTO utilty patents by MSA: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/cls_cbsa/allcbsa_gd.htm
• MSA level trends: http://www.metrotrends.org/data.cfm

To Do

We need to find and clean up data sets at the MSA level

• Patent data (USPTO)
• Number of STEM Graduate Students (NSF)
  • in progress
• University R&D Spending (NSF)
• Per Capita Income (US Census)
  • complete (Employment and Income_MSA.xls)
• Employment (US Census)
  • complete (Employment and Income_MSA.xls)
• Firm births (BDS)

• select MSAs