-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 …

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 …

.8 million books by 800,000 Goodreads users, I develop measures of both the supply of new books by male and female authors, as … female-authored books. While revenue gains to female authors come partly at the expense of male authors, gains to consumers …