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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Hille, Adrian - 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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A Double Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Effects of Musical Practice on Student's Skills

Knaus, Michael - 2018

This study investigates the dose-response effects of making music on youth development. Identification is based on the …

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Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives

Button, Patrick - 2019

I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile a detailed database of incentives, matching this with TV series and feature film data from the...

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Research Parasites are Beneficial for the Organism as a Whole : Competition between Researchers Creates a Symbiotic Relationship

Fecher, Benedikt - 2016

In the New England Journal of Medicine, Longo and Drazen critically assessed the concept of data sharing. Their main concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for their own original research questions. The authors...

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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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Bringing Underprivileged Middle-School Students to the Opera : Cultural Mobility or Cultural Compliance?

Coulangeon, Philippe; Fougère, Denis - 2022

This article assesses the impact of a two-year long project-based learning program conducted by the National Opera of Paris in a large number of junior high-schools located in underprivileged areas, aiming at preventing school dropout and tackling educational inequalities by providing...

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Illicit Shadows : An Economic Analysis of Trade Gaps in Cultural Goods Through the Italian Market

Acciai, Elia; Belloni, Michele; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2023

This paper provides evidence of a consistent gap in the value of cultural goods exported from Italy and the value declared by its trading partners in official trade statistics for the period 1994-2021 and discusses it in the context of the literature on illicit trafficking in cultural property,...

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Experts' Awards and Economic Success : Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Ponzo, Michela - 2015

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...

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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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Mozart or Pelé? The Effects of Teenagers' Participation in Music and Sports

Cabane, Charlotte - 2015

' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared …

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