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Galenson, David W. - 2010

. Yet creativity - a primary source of the technological change that drives economic growth - is largely the domain of … has several central components. A key element is the systematic measurement of an artist's creativity over the course of … economic research on creativity, by applying this analysis to other intellectual domains. It is important to recognize that …

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Creativity and the Family Tree : Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Link, Albert N. - 2014

relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data …

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The Most Important Works of Art of the Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2020

A survey of art history textbooks identifies and ranks the eight most important works of the 20th century. The most important painting of the century was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, executed by Picasso at the age of 26, which began the development of Cubism. Among the other seven works, a...

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Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness : A Large Scale Field Experiment

Blake, Tom - 2014

Internet advertising has been the fastest growing advertising channel in recent years with paid search ads comprising the bulk of this revenue. We present results from a series of large scale field experiments done at eBay that were designed to measure the causal effectiveness of paid search...

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Measuring Self-Control

Ameriks, John; Caplin, Andrew; Leahy, John Vincent; … - 2021

How significant are individual differences in self-control? Do these differences impact wealth accumulation? From where do they derive? Our survey-based measure of self-control provides insights into all three questions: 1.There are individual differences in self-control not only of a...

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Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting : Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi

Basurto, Pia - 2017

Developing countries spend vast sums on subsidies. Beneficiaries are typically selected via either a proxy-means test (PMT) or through a decentralized identification process led by local leaders. A decentralized allocation may offer informational or accountability advantages, but may be prone to...

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Universal Basic Incomes vs. Targeted Transfers : Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries

Hanna, Rema - 2018

Developing country governments are increasingly implementing cash assistance programs to combat poverty and inequality. This paper examines the potential tradeoffs between targeting these transfers towards low income households versus providing universal cash transfers, also known as a Universal...

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Improving the Targeting of Treatment : Evidence from College Remediation

Scott-Clayton, Judith E. - 2012

At an annual cost of roughly $7 billion nationally, remedial coursework is one of the single largest interventions intended to improve outcomes for underprepared college students. But like a costly medical treatment with non-trivial side effects, the value of remediation overall depends upon...

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Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru

Karlan, Dean - 2014

For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a...

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The Power of Transparency : Information, Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2015

Can governments improve aid programs by providing information to beneficiaries? In our model, information can change how much aid citizens receive as they bargain with local officials who implement national programs. In a large-scale field experiment, we test whether mailing cards with program...

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