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Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source : Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program

Conti, Annamaria; Gupta, Vansh; Guzman, Jorge; Roche, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...

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Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven : A Field Experiment on eBay

Bar-Gill, Sagit; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hak, Nir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

As more and more activities in the economy become digitized, analytics and data-driven decision-making (DDD) are becoming increasingly important. The adoption of analytics and DDD has been slower in small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) compared to large firms, and reliable causal estimates of the...

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

Hanlon, W. Walker; Heblich, Stephan; Monte, Ferdinando; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How do communication costs affect the production of new ideas and inventions? To answer this question, we study the … showing how a fall in communication costs can increase the rate at which scientific knowledge is exchanged and new ideas and … and urban economics positing that more ideas can emerge from communication between individuals …

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Movies

Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...

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Unpacking Social Capital

Durante, Ruben; Mastrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social capital and the use of social capital indicators for empirical work. Our data cover a sample of over 600,000 respondents interviewed between 2000 and 2015. We identify four distinct...

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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...

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Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access

Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for...

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Culture in Historical Political Economy

Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Culture - the set of socially transmitted values and beliefs held by individuals - has important implications for a wide variety of economic outcomes. Both the causes and consequences of culture have been the subject of work in Historical Political Economy. I first outline several theories on...

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Culture Clash : Incompatible Reputation Mechanisms and Intergroup Conflict

Fouka, Vasiliki; Schläpfer, Alain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Under what conditions does intergroup contact lead to conflict? We provide a novel answer to this question by highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one-time interactions within a group, but the informational content...

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Are Immigrants more Left leaning than Natives?

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical children of citizens in the host countries. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a...

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