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A new look at the earnings gap in the arts

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Assistant Professor of economics, Queens College of the City University of New York and consultant, Informatics, Inc. This paper is part of a larger study on the growth of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in the decade of the 1970's being performed at Informatics, Inc. under a contract from the National Endowment for the Arts, NEA PC 80-29. The helpful comments of Mary G. Peters are gratefully acknowledged. I am most grateful to Professor William J. Baumol for his most serious review of an earlier draft which helped perfect this paper. All remaining errors are my own, of course.

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Schwarz, S. A new look at the earnings gap in the arts. J Cult Econ 6, 1–10 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02511596

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