# Professor Petra Moser's research on immigrants' contributions to innovation is highlighted

1 Faculty News August 22, 2017 ![NPR logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030855.jpg?itok=Ti1_93MD)>

Excerpt from [NPR](http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/08/22/545253708/american-science-and-the-nazis) -- "A 2013 study by Stanford economist [Petra Moser](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/petra-moser) showed that U.S. patents increased by 31 percent in the fields these scientists represented after their arrival. 'German Jewish émigrés had a huge effect on U.S. innovation,' Moser told an interviewer. 'They helped increase the quality of research by training a new generation of American scientists, who then became productive researchers in their own rights.'"

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