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A Portrait of the Artist as a Very Young or Very Old Innovator : Creativity at the Extremes of the Life Cycle
Galenson, David W. - 2020
Orson Wells made Citizen Kane, his greatest movie, when he was 25 years old; Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater, his most famous house, when he was 70. Contrasts as great as this raise the question of whether there is a general explanation of when in their lives great innovators are most...
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What Do Editors Maximize? Evidence from Four Leading Economics Journals
Card, David - 2017
Economics and Statistics. We match papers to the publication records of authors at the time of submission and to subsequent … referees' evaluations, however, papers by highly-published authors get more citations, suggesting that referees impose a higher … bar for these authors, or that prolific authors are over-cited. Editors only partially offset the referees' opinions …
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young or Old Innovator : Measuring the Careers of Modern Novelists
Galenson, David W. - 2021
Some important novelists have written a great novel early in their careers and have produced lesser works thereafter, whereas others have improved their work gradually over long periods and have made their major contributions late in their lives. Which of these patterns a novelist follows...
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Copyright and the Profitability of Authorship : Evidence from Payments to Writers in the Romantic Period
MacGarvie, Megan - 2014
-existing levels of protection, this chapter introduces a new data set of publishers' payments to authors of British fiction between … 1800 and 1830. These data indicate that payments to authors nearly doubled following an increase in the length of copyright …
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Competition and Ideological Diversity : Historical Evidence from Us Newspapers
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2012
We study the competitive forces that shaped ideological diversity in the US press in the early twentieth century. We find that households preferred like-minded news and that newspapers used their political orientation to differentiate from competitors. We formulate a model of newspaper demand,...
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The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2009
We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate effects on political participation, party vote shares, and electoral competitiveness. Our identification strategy exploits the precise timing of these events and allows for the possibility of confounding...
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Press Coverage and Political Accountability
Snyder, James M. - 2008
In this paper we estimate the impact of press coverage on citizen knowledge, politicians' actions, and policy. We find that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. We use variation in this fit due to redistricting to identify the effects...
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Policy News and Stock Market Volatility
Baker, Scott R. - 2019
We create a newspaper-based Equity Market Volatility (EMV) tracker that moves with the VIX and with the realized volatility of returns on the S&P 500. Parsing the underlying text, we find that 72 percent of EMV articles discuss the Macroeconomic Outlook, and 44 percent discuss Commodity Markets....
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Do Newspapers Matter? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Closure of the Cincinnati Post
Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - 2010
The Cincinnati Post published its last edition on New Year's Eve 2007, leaving the Cincinnati Enquirer as the only daily newspaper in the market. The next year, fewer candidates ran for municipal office in the Kentucky suburbs most reliant on the Post, incumbents became more likely to win...
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Partisan Bias in Economic News : Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers
Larcinese, Valentino - 2010
We study the agenda-setting political behavior of a large sample of U.S. newspapers during the last decade, and the behavior of smaller samples for longer time periods. Our purpose is to examine the intensity of coverage of economic issues as a function of the underlying economic conditions and...
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