Replication Data for: Do Businesses Pay to Do Science? The Effects of Hiring PhDs on Firms' Patenting Process

The attached files are necessary for replication of Mushtaq, Shawn J., Sappenfield, James M., and Shi, Dongbo. \"Do Businesses Pay to Do Science? The Effects of Hiring PhDs on Firms' Patenting Process\". File list: the preliminary draft (Mushtaq Sappenfield Shi, Do Businesses Pay to Do Science, 2015.pdf); the R code necessary to replicate all results and tables (Analysis_DBP.R, Matching_DBP.R, MultipleImputation_DBP.R, and Tables_DBP.R). The data for this study come from: Giuri, Paola; Mariani, Myriam, 2013, \"Replication data for: When Distance Disappears: Inventors, Education, and the Locus of Knowledge Spillovers\", http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/22108 V2 [Version] Available at this address in the dataverse: https://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/restat/faces/study/StudyPage.xhtml?globalId=hdl:1902.1/22108&studyListingIndex=2_ef7ef736c69ca9d616a249cbe42f Complete data for replication purposes (data_complete.dta) can be obtained through contacting the authors of the aforementioned study (Giuri, Paola; Mariani, Myriam, 2013, \"Replication data for: When Distance Disappears: Inventors, Education, and the Locus of Knowledge Spillovers\") directly and through signing a non-disclosure agreement regarding the PatVal-EU data.