Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing … population data for Denmark, we find that people with BD are more likely to be musicians, but less likely to hold other creative … compared with the bottom decile. Yet, wealth differences only explain a small portion of the link between BD and creativity …

relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data …

Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received … effects of competition on individuals' creative production. Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel …, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to produce original, untested ideas …