Chapter 14 Empirical Studies of Demand for the Performing Arts

Seaman, Bruce A.

doi:10.1016/s1574-0676(06)01014-3

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“…According to McKercher (2002), little research has been published examining the market for cultural tourism in general and its impact on the consumption of cultural activities. Although there have been many studies examining the demand for the performing arts from both individual survey data and aggregate data perspective (see Seaman 2006 for on overview of early studies and the more recent studies of Werck and Heyndels 2007;Ateca-Amestoy 2008;Zieba 2009;Snowball 2009, Grisolía andWillis 2012;Laamanen 2013), there are only few studies which examine the effects of tourism on theatre attendance.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Tourism flows and the demand for regional and city theatres in Austria

Zieba

2015

J Cult Econ

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This paper investigates the impact of tourism flows on demand for large regional and city theatres in Austria over the period from 1972 to 2011 (39 years). The results are obtained by applying an aggregated theatre demand function for both residents and tourists. The elasticity of theatre attendance in response to tourism is estimated along with other standard demand variables such as ticket price and income. The quality factors and theatre-specific effects are also included. The tourism flows variables are derived using detailed data set on tourist arrivals and their overnight counts, and they are also split between domestic and foreign tourists. To measure the impact of tourism flows on theatre demand, three alternative theatre markets specifications are considered. The total elasticity of attendance per capita in response to tourism is estimated between 15 to 20%, indicating that increasing the number of arrivals by two tourists per resident in the relevant market would generate an increase in theatre attendance by 581-680 thousand visitors per year. The role of tourism flows is found to be particularly important for attendance at opera, operetta and musicals as opposed to attendance at drama performances. The analysis also reveals that foreign, nonGerman tourists have a positive impact on theatre attendance whereas domestic tourists do not contribute significantly to higher demand for Austrian theatres.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Tourism flows and the demand for regional and city theatres in Austria

Zieba

2015

J Cult Econ

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“…The relationship between sex and age on the one hand and arts participation on the other hand is ambiguous (Seaman, 2006). The size of the family points to time and budget constraints that could shape the decision to attend cultural events, or to engage in other artistic or health-related activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Previous empirical research has found a high correlation between educational level and arts attendance (Seaman, 2006). Consumption of cultural or arts goods requires investments in arts-specific human capital and tastes, to understand and appreciate artistic performances.…”

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Leave the Drama on the Stage: The Effect of Cultural Participation on Health

Thiel

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractThe aim of this study is to estimate the causal effect of cultural participation on health status. Cultural activities may directly impact upon health through palliative coping or substituting health-compromising behaviors. Cultural engagement may also facilitate the development of social networks, which can improve health via social support and the dissemination of social health norms. Previous estimates on the arts-health relationship are potentially biased due to reverse causality and unobserved heterogeneity. Using individuallevel data from Germany, we employ propensity-score matching methods. The treatment group is confined to individuals that visit cultural events at least once a month. The participation equation includes a rich set of personal characteristics that cover the respondents' demographic and social background, social capital and leisure-time activities, health-related lifestyle, personality and childhood environment. We explicitly consider reverse causality by including the pre-treatment trends in health outcomes am...

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“…In his wide and in-depth review of the empirical literature on the demand for the (performing) arts, Seaman (2006) argues that income elasticity is not adequately estimated because most of the studies are not able to distinguish between the income effect and the substitution effect, whereas the literature agrees that consumption of culture is time intensive and ticket price is only one component of the explicit expense of attending a live performance. Seaman (2006) concludes that the only stylized facts are that the demand curve is negatively sloped, arts goods are normally related to income and not necessarily considered a luxury, and, finally, that there is some form of positive cross-price elasticity, which turns up in a substitution effect within and across different art forms.…”

Section: Cultural Economics: Individual Variables Past Consumption Amentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Seaman (2006) concludes that the only stylized facts are that the demand curve is negatively sloped, arts goods are normally related to income and not necessarily considered a luxury, and, finally, that there is some form of positive cross-price elasticity, which turns up in a substitution effect within and across different art forms. More controversial and sometimes contradictory results address the quality of the artistic product (Lévy-Garboua & Montmarquette 2003) and the importance of socio-demographic variables and lifestyles factors which define the different categories of consumers.…”

Section: Cultural Economics: Individual Variables Past Consumption Amentioning

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Music consumption at the dawn of the music industry: the rise of a cultural fad

Guerzoni

Nuccio

2013

J Cult Econ

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This paper discusses the extent to which socio-demographic characteristics of consumers and their past consumption are less effective in explaining the decision of purchasing a cultural good than the characteristics of the product itself, which allow imitative behaviors and are at the basis of distinction. While the former approaches are well discussed in the literature, the latter refers to the Bourdieu's idea of objectified cultural capital, which has been rarely explored in empirical works. Because the various explanatory effects interact with each others, the paper tests a theoretical model which matches individual characteristics of the consumer with the properties of the cultural product. Specifically, we discussed the emergence of a new version of a cultural good, which is able to broaden the dimension of the market by gaining quick success in the the audience. This diffusion pattern is a quite rare event, but disruptive for the market and extremely profitable for the producer. The authors label this occurrence disruptive cultural fad and try to understand the determinants of its adoption. The hypotheses of the model are tested on a unique dataset of micro-data of purchasing transactions in Milan in the early 19 th century, when the music by Gioachino Rossini emerged as disruptive cultural fad at the dawn of the music industry.

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Chapter 14 Empirical Studies of Demand for the Performing Arts

Cited by 121 publications

References 82 publications

Tourism flows and the demand for regional and city theatres in Austria

Tourism flows and the demand for regional and city theatres in Austria

Leave the Drama on the Stage: The Effect of Cultural Participation on Health

Music consumption at the dawn of the music industry: the rise of a cultural fad

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