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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. - 2004

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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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young or Old Innovator : Measuring the Careers of Modern Novelists

Galenson, David W. - 2004

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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What do Editors Maximize? Evidence from Four Leading Economics Journals

Card, David - 2017

Google Scholar citations. To guide our analysis we develop a benchmark model in which editors maximize the expected quality … recommendations are strong predictors of citations, and that editors follow the recommendations quite closely. Holding constant the … bar for these authors, or that prolific authors are over-cited. Editors only partially offset the referees' opinions …

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MacGarvie, Megan - 2013

Proponents of stronger copyright terms have argued that stronger copyright terms encourage creativity by increasing the profitability of authorship. Empirical evidence, however, is scarce, because data on the profitability of authorship is typically not available to the public. Moreover at...

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The Welfare Effect of Gender-Inclusive Intellectual Property Creation : Evidence from Books

Waldfogel, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Women have traditionally participated in intellectual property creation at depressed rates relative to men. Book authorship is now an exception. In 1970, women published a third as many books as men. By 2020, women produced the majority of books. Adding new products can have significant welfare...

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