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Books shape how children learn about society and social norms, in part through the representation of different characters. To better understand the messages children encounter in books, we introduce new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data. We apply...
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piracy. My analysis is based on copyright registrations, information on authors, book titles and prices, financial data from …
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Women have traditionally participated in intellectual property creation at depressed rates relative to men. Book … proportionate increase in the female-authored shares of consumption, book awards, and other measures of success, indicating both …
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book prices for libraries and their patrons. Using data on over 8,000 library systems for 2013-2019, we measure the impacts … library market, and we rationalize the status quo book holdings with a librarian utility function that attaches higher weights …, higher physical book prices, as would prevail absent the first sale doctrine, reduce CS by almost ten times as much as an …
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U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms …
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for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated …
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. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …
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During the 1850s, land in U.S. farms surged by more than 100 million acres while almost 50 million acres of land were transformed from their raw, natural state into productive farmland. The time and expense of transforming this land into a productive resource represented a significant fraction...
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Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national accounts or repeated cross-sections of micro-survey data, and as...
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Why do developing countries fail to specialize in products in which they appear to have a comparative advantage? We propose a model of agricultural trade with intermediation that explains how hold-up resulting from poor contracting environments can produce such an outcome. We use the model to...
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