Battle of the ballet household decisions on arts consumption
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Battle of the ballet household decisions on arts consumption Caterina Adelaide Mauri1 · Alexander Friedrich Wolf2 Received: 3 October 2018 / Accepted: 19 September 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Women and men differ in their tastes for the performing arts. Gender differences have been shown to persist after accounting for socioeconomic factors. This paper uses this difference to shed light on how decisions on arts consumption are made in households. Based on relatively recent theoretical developments in the literature on household decision-making, we use three different so-called distribution factors to show for the first time that the relative bargaining power of spouses affects their arts consumption. Using a sample from the US Current Population Survey, which includes data on the frequency of visits to cultural activities, we regress attendance on a range of socioeconomic variables using a count data model. The distribution factors consistently affect attendance by men at events such as the opera, ballet and other dance performances, which are more frequently attended by women than by men. We conclude that when men have more bargaining power, they tend to attend such events less frequently. Keywords Arts consumption · Household bargaining · Count data · Bargaining power · High culture JEL Classification Z11 · D13 · D12
* Caterina Adelaide Mauri [email protected] Alexander Friedrich Wolf [email protected] 1
University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
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Compass Lexecon, Square de Meeûs 23, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
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Journal of Cultural Economics
1 Introduction A large literature has investigated the determinants of demand for high cultural activities and a wide range of variables have been considered as drivers of this demand. Beyond income, education, childhood exposure to the arts, family background and time constraints, authors have also looked at social drivers including influence from spouses and unmarried partners. One aspect that has to our knowledge not been investigated is the role of intrahousehold bargaining. This phenomenon has received considerable attention in household economics with the advent of powerful recent methodological innovations that have allowed authors to peak into the black-box of intra-household allocations (see Chiappori and Donni 2009 for an introduction). Many important decisions that are of interest to researchers are made not by individuals but by households and couples. Though it is impossible to understand how exactly these decisions are made, especially since each household may have different and complex dynamics, some simple concepts should apply to a large enough number to be detected statistically. The idea is simple enough. When couples of men and women (or by extension any group of people) have to make a decision jointly, two things should matter: Their individual preferences and their relative influence within the couple. This relative influence comes under
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