Research

Publications 

• Noh, K. (2025) "Paid Family Leave Policy and Leave-Taking: A Synthetic Control Approach," Applied Economics Letters, 32(9), 1273-1277. [Paper]

Working Papers 

• "PatentClock: Standardized Earliest Priority Dates for US Utility Patents" [Under Review]

• "The Effect of Credit Shocks on Sustained Team Collaboration in Patenting" [Job Market Paper] 

• "Mother of Invention? California’s Paid Family Leave Program and Women’s Patenting," (with Chun-Yu Ho, Gerald R. Marschke, and Won Sung)  [Draft available upon request]

Work in Progress

• "Paid Family Leave and Mixed-Gender Collaboration in Innovation," (with Chun-Yu Ho and Gerald R. Marschke) 

• "Patent Families and Novelty: Beyond Filing Dates," (with Gerald R. Marschke) 

Datasets and Code

• PatentClock: Standardized Earliest Priority Dates for US Utility Patents

Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22226012 

Code: https://github.com/knoh-albany/patentclock