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How Are You, My Dearest Mozart? Well-Being and Creativity of Three Famous Composers Based on Their Letters
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The Review of Economics and Statistics (2017) 99 (4): 591–605.
Published: 01 October 2017
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The importance of creativity is being increasingly recognized by economists; however, the possibility that emotional factors determine creative processes is largely ignored. Building on 1,400 letters written by three famous music composers, I obtain well-being indices that span their lifetimes. The validity of this methodology is shown by linking the indices with biographical information and through estimation of the determinants of well-being. I then exploit the data and provide quantitative evidence on the existence of a causal impact of negative emotions on outstanding creativity, an association hypothesized across several disciplines since the antiquity that has not yet been convincingly established.
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