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Public opinion on immigration in Europe : preference versus salience
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2017
There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on the responses to survey questions on whether the individual would prefer more or less...
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Natives' attitudes and immigration flows to Europe
Di Iasio, Valentina; Wahba, Jackline - 2023
This paper examines the effects of natives' anti-immigration attitudes on migration flows to EU countries. We use panel data for migration to the EU between 1995-2018. We address the potential endogeneity between public attitudes and migration flows using instrumental variable techniques. We...
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Does a tragic event affect different aspects of attitudes toward immigration?
Heizler, Odelia; Israeli, Osnat - 2024
Dramatic events can evoke feelings of compassion, fear, or threat, and can affect public opinion regarding controversial issues. Such an event was the drowning of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, a Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish shore, and was photographed, producing an iconic image that was...
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Experts' awards and economic success : evidence from an Italian Literary Prize
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015
Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of …
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Famous after death : the effect of a writer's death on book sales
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022
In the standard neoclassical model consumers use all the available information and the demand for goods depends exclusively on preferences and prices whereas other spurious information do not play any role. In the market for books, we investigate if - in contrast to the standard model - the...
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A double machine learning approach to estimate the effects of musical practice on student's skills
Knaus, Michael C. - 2018
This study investigates the dose-response effects of making music on youth development. Identification is based on the …
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How learning a musical instrument affects the development of skills
Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013
Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive … and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the …-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our findings suggest that adolescents with music training have better cognitive skills and school grades and …
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Measuring national life satisfaction with music
Benetos, Emmanouil; Ragano, Alessandro; Sgroi, Daniel; … - 2021
-run comparisons with other data. We construct a new measure based on the emotional content of music. We first trained a machine … learning model using 191 different audio features embedded within music and use this model to construct a long-run Music … satisfaction and outperforms an equivalent text-based measure. Our results have implications for the role of music in society, and …
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Migrant ethnic identity : concept and policy implications
Zimmermann, Klaus F. (contributor) - 2007
With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561629
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The happy cultural omnivore? : exploring the relationship between cultural consumption patterns and subjective well-being
Bertacchini, Enrico; Bolognesi, Valentina; Venturini, … - 2021
This paper proposes a novel approach to explore the relationship between cultural participation and subjective well-being. While most empirical research has considered such a connection using cultural and leisure activities individually or in additive terms, drawing from the sociological...
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