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Research Parasites Are Beneficial for the Organism as a Whole: Competition between Researchers Creates a Symbiotic Relationship

Fecher, Benedikt; Wagner, Gert G. - 2016

In the New England Journal of Medicine, Longo and Drazen critically assessed the concept of data sharing. Their main concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for their own original research questions. The authors...

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Do International Tourist Arrivals Change Residents' Attitudes Towards Immigration? A Longitudinal Study of 28 European Countries

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Smith, Ian - 2023

Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The … instrumental variable analysis suggests that incoming tourism has a positive causal effect on attitudes towards immigration in both … Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights …

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Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean

Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan; Hope, Kevin - 2020

This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …

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Famous after Death: The Effect of a Writer's Death on Book Sales

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022

In the standard neoclassical model consumers use all the available information and the demand for goods depends exclusively on preferences and prices whereas other spurious information do not play any role. In the market for books, we investigate if – in contrast to the standard model – the...

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Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis

Almelhem, Ali; Iyigun, Murat; Kennedy, Austin; Rubin, Jared - 2023

Using textual analysis of 173,031 works printed in England between 1500 and 1900, we test whether British culture …

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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013

Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...

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Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...

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Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives

Button, Patrick - 2019

I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile a detailed database of incentives, matching this with TV series and feature film data from the...

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Drivers of Cultural Participation of Immigrants: Evidence from an Italian Survey

Bertacchini, Enrico; Venturini, Alessandra; Zotti, Roberto - 2019

specific to migrants' characteristics and behaviour, namely dimensions of proximity to the native population's culture and the … immigrant's cultural background and proximity with the culture of the host society still significantly explain variation in …

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Bringing Underprivileged Middle-School Students to the Opera: Cultural Mobility or Cultural Compliance?

Coulangeon, Philippe; Fougère, Denis - 2021

This article assesses the impact of a two-year long project-based learning program conducted by the National Opera of Paris in a large number of junior high-schools located in underprivileged areas, aiming at preventing school dropout and tackling educational inequalities by providing...

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