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Laws and Norms
Bénabou, Roland - 2011
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
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Supply Responses to Digital Distribution : Recorded Music and Live Performances
Mortimer, Julie H. - 2010
Changes in technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods (e.g., music, movies, software, books) have … sales of complementary non-digital products. We examine the negative impact of file-sharing on recorded music sales and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136546
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Information Spillovers in the Market for Recorded Music
Hendricks, Kenneth; Sorensen, Alan T. - 2021
This paper studies the role of consumer learning in the demand for recorded music by examining the impact of an artist …
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"Selling Out" and the Impact of Music Piracy on Artist Entry
Gans, Joshua S. - 2015
There is a puzzle arising from empirical analyses of the impact of music piracy that this has caused declines in music … music. There have been numerous explanations posited and this paper adds a novel one: that artists are time inconsistent and … expectations of piracy are not a concern as these impact on monetary awards that are not driving entry. When selling out is …
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Copyright and Creativity. Evidence from Italian Opera During the Napoleonic Age
Giorcelli, Michela; Moser, Petra - 2021
This paper exploits exogenous variation in the adoption of copyrights – as a result of the timing of Napoléon’s military victories in Italy – to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure changes in creative output we compare changes in the creation of new operas across...
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Going to a Better School : Effects and Behavioral Responses
Pop-Eleches, Cristian - 2011
This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128273
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Inside the Refrigerator : Immigration Enforcement and Chilling Effects in Medicaid Participation
Watson, Tara - 2010
Economists have puzzled over why eligible individuals fail to enroll in social safety net programs. "Chilling effects" arising from an icy policy climate are a popular explanation for low program take-up rates among immigrants, but such effects are inherently hard to measure. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139139
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From Infant to Mother : Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health
Almond, Douglas - 2011
This paper examines the links between the disease environment around the time of a woman's birth, and her health at the time she delivers her own infant. Our results suggest that exposure to disease in early childhood significantly increases the incidence of diabetes in the population of future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117385
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Avoiding the Ask : A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving
Andreoni, James - 2011
If people get joy from giving, then why might they avoid fundraisers? We explore this in a randomized natural field experiment during the Salvation Army's annual campaign. The familiar bell-ringers were placed at one or both of two main entrances to a supermarket, making the ask for a charitable...
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Socioeconomic Differences in the Impact of Smoking Tobacco and Alcohol Prices on Smoking in India
Guindon, G. Emmanuel - 2011
The threat posed by smoking to health in India is severe. Already 1 in 5 of all adult male deaths and 1 in 20 of all adult female deaths at ages 30-69 are due to smoking and India will soon have 1 million smoking deaths a year. Increasing tobacco prices has been found to be the single most...
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