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In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...
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crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open …'s creativity measured in childhood and their individual attributes and life outcomes. We find that childhood creativity predicts … experience is important. We combine insights from our findings with evidence from psychology to propose creativity …
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via video conferences as compared to face-to-face. Thus, we provide evidence that barriers to creativity in virtual teams …
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on a creativity test prior to university entry. We first show that the creative abilities of peers matter for a student …'s academic achievement. A one standard deviation higher creativity peer group improves study performance by 8.4 to 10 percentage … points. Notably, this effect is driven by the average group creativity, there is no special impact of creative superstars …
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, including creativity. Existing research on creative teams focuses on one-shot or existing teams, overlooking the importance of …
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creative than humans, while Bard lags behind. Augmenting humans with AI improves human creativity, albeit not as much as ideas … created by ChatGPT alone. Competition from AI does not significantly reduce the creativity of men, but it decreases the … creativity of women. Humans who rate the text cannot discriminate well between ideas created by AI or other humans but assign …
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This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...
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This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...
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