Productivity, R&d, and Basic Research at the Firm Level in the 1970s

A new data set (the NSF-Census match) containing information on the R&D expenditures, sales, employment, and other detail for approximately 1,000 largest manufacturing firms in the U.S. during 1957-1977 is analyzed using a standard production function framework augmented by the addition of an R&D

本研究针对一套全新的NSF-Census匹配数据集展开分析，该数据集涵盖了1957年至1977年间美国约1000家大型制造企业的研发（R&D）支出、销售额、雇员规模及其他相关详细信息；本次分析采用标准生产函数框架，并通过添加研发相关内容对该框架进行了扩充。