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| Id | 202 | |
| Author | Serafinelli, M., ; Tabellini, G., | |
| Title | Creativity Over Time and Space | |
| Reference | Serafinelli, M., Tabellini, G. (2017). Creativity over time and space. CEPR discussion paper no. DP12365. |
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| Link to article | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3053893 |
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| Abstract | Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on city institutions and population. Our main outcome of interest is the number of famous creatives (scaled to local population) born in a city during a century, but we also look at famous immigrants (based on location of death). We first document several stylized facts: famous births and immigrants are spatially concentrated and clustered across disciplines, creative clusters are persistent but less than population, and spatial mobility has remained stable over the centuries. Next, we show that the emergence of city institutions protecting economic and political freedoms and promoting local autonomy facilitates the attraction and production of creative talent. |
Next, we show that the emergence of city institutions protecting economic and political freedoms and promoting local autonomy facilitates the attraction and production of creative talent. in particular the production and attraction of creative talent and innovators may be positively af- fected by institutions that protect freedoms and basic human rights and allow open exchange of ideas such as the variable commune. disciplines are disaggregated in performing arts non-performing arts humanities and science and business. in columns - of tables and we replace population with each of the three variables indi- cating a city s status in the political and ecclesiastical hierarchy bishop archbishop and capital. over- all these results suggest that local prosperity other than being a state capital does not play an important role in the formation or decay of creative clusters.
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