Growth Is Getting Harder to Find, Not Ideas

Fabrizio Zilibotti and numerous conference and seminar participants for helpful comments and suggestions.Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the US Census Bureau.The Census Bureau has ensured appropriate access and use of confidential data and has reviewed these results for disclosure avoidance protection (Project 7083300: CBDRB-FY25-CES002-001 and CBDRBFY25-CED006-012).Parts of the paper were written while Fort, Goldschlag, and Zolas were US Census Bureau employees.The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.At least one co-author has disclosed additional relationships of potential relevance for this research.