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Moonshot: Public R&D and Growth

By Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley

American Economic Review, September 2025

We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War–era space race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending...