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Playlisting Favorites : Measuring Platform Bias in the Music Industry
Aguiar, Luis; Waldfogel, Joel; Waldfogel, Sarah B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. While bias is inherently difficult to measure, we identify a context within the music industry that is amenable to bias … against women. Using data on Spotify curators' rank of songs on New Music Friday playlists in 2017, we find that Spotify's New … Music Friday rankings favor independent-label music, along with some evidence of bias in favor of music by women. Despite …
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Copyright and Creativity. Evidence from Italian Opera During the Napoleonic Age
Giorcelli, Michela - 2020
This paper exploits exogenous variation in the adoption of copyrights - as a result of the timing of Napoléon's military victories in Italy - to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure changes in creative output we compare changes in the creation of new operas across states...
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Information Spillovers in the Market for Recorded Music
Hendricks, Ken - 2006
This paper studies the role of consumer learning in the demand for recorded music by examining the impact of an artist …
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"Selling Out" and the Impact of Music Piracy on Artist Entry
Gans, Joshua S. - 2014
There is a puzzle arising from empirical analyses of the impact of music piracy that this has caused declines in music … music. There have been numerous explanations posited and this paper adds a novel one: that artists are time inconsistent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458502
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Making a Song and Dance About It : The Effectiveness of Teaching Children Vocabulary with Animated Music Videos
Kalil, Ariel; Mayer, Susan E.; Oreopoulos, Philip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
music and dance videos for 3-5 minutes per day to increase vocabulary. We conducted a field experiment with 818 preschool …
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E-commerce During Covid : Stylized Facts from 47 Economies
Alcedo, Joel - 2022
We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased more in economies with...
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The Pricing Strategies of Online Grocery Retailers
Aparicio, Diego; Metzman, Zachary; Rigobón, Roberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Matched product data is collected from the leading online grocers in the U.S. The same exact products are identified in scanner data. The paper documents pricing strategies within and across online (and offline) retailers. First, online retailers exhibit substantially less uniform pricing than...
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The International Price of Remote Work
Brinatti, Agostina; Cavallo, Alberto; Cravino, Javier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers from around the world compete for jobs that can be done remotely. We document that, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the...
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Biased Sampling of Early Users and the Direction of Startup Innovation
Cao, Ruiqing; Koning, Rembrand M.; Nanda, Ramana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that the composition of the platform's 'beta testers' on the day a new product is launched has a systematic and persistent impact on the venture's success. Specifically, we use word embedding methods to...
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Flagship Entry in Online Marketplaces
Jin, Ginger Zhe; Lu, Zhentong; Zhou, Xiaolu; Fang, Lu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In the world of omnichannel retail, some brands open a flagship store at online marketplaces, while others avert it. Focusing on a large e-commerce platform, we empirically study how flagship entry affects consumers, the platform, and various sellers on the platform
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