🌐 Global Economy Jul 15, 2026 · conversableeconomist

How Much Does Federal R&D Pay Off?

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How Much Does Federal R&D Pay Off?
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How much does federally funded R&D benefit the economy? Sheila Campbell, Jaeger Nelson, Eli Schrag, Heidi Williams, and Caleb Wroblewski work through some ways of answering that question in “Estimating the Economic Effects of Federally Funded R&D” (Congressional Budget Office, Working Paper 2026-08, July 2026). (Full disclosure: Among her other roles, Williams is editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and thus my boss.)



The authors use two alternative approaches

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