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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian - 2005

Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...

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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity : Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2004

What are the economic consequences to U.S. natives of the growing diversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens...

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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict : Hindu-Muslim Violence in India

Mitra, Anirban - 2013

We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...

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Young Geniuses and Old Masters : The Life Cycles of Great Artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns

Galenson, David W. - 2001

There have been two very different life cycles for great artists: some have made their greatest contributions very early in their careers, whereas others have produced their best work late in their lives. These two patterns have been associated with different working methods, as art's young...

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Inventors and Pirates : Creative Activity and Intellectual Property Rights

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2000

This paper analyzes how both the value of ideas created as well as the security of intellectual property rights result from the choices of potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates, and from decisions of people who are engaged in creative activity to...

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Creativity Under Fire : The Effects of Competition on Creative Production

Gross, Daniel P. - 2018

Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received …

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Giorcelli, Michela - 2020

's military victories in Italy - to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure changes in creative output we …

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The Political Economy of Ideas : On Ideas Versus Interests in Policymaking

Mukand, Sharun - 2018

We develop a conceptual framework to highlight the role of ideas as a catalyst for policy and institutional change. We make an explicit distinction between ideas and vested interests and show how they feed into each other. In doing so the paper integrates the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the...

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Mental Health, Creativity, and Wealth

Biasi, Barbara; Dahl, Michael S.; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing … compared with the bottom decile. Yet, wealth differences only explain a small portion of the link between BD and creativity …

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Understanding Creativity

Galenson, David W. - 2010

range of arts. It is now time to extend economic research on creativity, by applying this analysis to other intellectual … not only to understand, but perhaps also to increase, the creativity of these remarkable individuals, and to help others …. Yet creativity - a primary source of the technological change that drives economic growth - is largely the domain of …

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