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Marcela Carvalho

  • PhD candidate in Business Economics, Harvard University and Harvard Business School

Marcela Carvalho is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Business Economics, a joint program between the Economics Department at Harvard University and Harvard Business School (HBS). Previously, she did her undergraduate studies at Universidade de Sao Paulo and obtained a Master’s degree in Economics from PUC-Rio.

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How Do Tech Innovations Really Spread? New Evidence

Article By Aakash Kalyani, Nicholas Bloom, Marcela Carvalho, Tarek Alexander Hassan, Josh Lerner, and Ahmed Tahoun | Jul 11, 2024

New technologies appear to yield long-lasting benefits for the pioneer locations where they were originally developed.

The Diffusion of New Technologies

Paper Working Paper | By Aakash Kalyani, Nicholas Bloom, Marcela Carvalho, Tarek Alexander Hassan, Josh Lerner, and Ahmed Tahoun | Jul 2024

The concentration of innovation in a handful of urban centers engenders large and persistent regional disparities in economic opportunity.