Abstract
In 1964, around 11% of agricultural workers in America were prevented from entering the labor force. Using a text-search algorithm allocating patents to crops, I show that a negative labor-supply shock induced a sharp increase in innovation in technologies related to more affected crops. The effect is stronger for technology related to labor-intensive production tasks.
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