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the largest book-banning campaign in Chinese history, initiated during the compilation of the 'Siku Quanshu' (Complete … recovery extends to ideas, as evidenced by keyword analysis of book titles. Further analysis highlights the central role of …
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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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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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Choices are frequently made from lists where there is by necessity some ordering of options. In such situations individuals can exhibit both primacy bias towards the first option and recency bias towards the last option. We examine this phenomenon in a particularly interesting context: consumer...
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This paper provides a data-driven overview of the different online platforms that consumers use to search for books and booksellers, and documents how the use of these platforms is shifting over time. Our data suggest that, as a result of digitization, consumers are increasingly conducting...
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We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0.13 standard deviations. The effect is still present three...
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context of the used book market, exploiting both cross-sectional differences across books and time-series differences in the … wake of Amazon's acquisition and incorporation of a large used book marketplace. The paper develops a framework for …
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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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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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We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in …
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