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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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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481659
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Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167199
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Accounting for family background when designing optimal income taxes: a microeconometric simulation analysis
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269427
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Accounting for Family Background when Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514873
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329100
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873551
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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096066
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Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
Almelhem, Ali; Iyigun, Murat; Kennedy, Austin; Rubin, Jared - 2023
findings. First, there was a separation in the language of science and religion beginning in the 17th century. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469371
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Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare
Bosworth, Steven J.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded commodities rather than prosocial relationships, since the latter intrinsically require the expenditure of...
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