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Books Go Public: The Consequences of the Expropriation of Monastic Libraries on Innovation
Buonanno, Paolo; Cinnirella, Francesco; Harka, Elona; … - 2024
libraries. From a contemporary survey on public libraries, we construct a unique dataset on municipalities which received … existing libraries. We show that the innovation advantage also persisted in the long run and had no impact on human capital. …
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The economics of books
Canoy, Marcel F. M.; van Ours, Jan C.; van der Ploeg, … - 2005
books through laws concerning prices of books, grants for authors and publishers, a lower value-added tax, public libraries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261147
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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US
Giulietti, Corrado; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...
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