Success of celebrities: Talent, intelligence or beauty?
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- Olivier Gergaud & Victor Ginsburgh & Florine Livat, 2012. "Success of Celebrities: Talent, Intelligence or Beauty?," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 32(4), pages 3120-3127.
- GERGAUD, Olivier & GINSBURGH, Victor & LIVAT, Florine, 2012. "Success of celebrities: talent, intelligence or beauty?," LIDAM Reprints CORE 2498, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
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