. 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 …

This paper studies the role of consumer learning in the demand for recorded music by examining the impact of an artist …

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 …

music and dance videos for 3-5 minutes per day to increase vocabulary. We conducted a field experiment with 818 preschool …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …

This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of …