Cultural Capital Externalities: Causal Evidence From a Danish Ticket Scheme for Theatres

IF 1.5 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS
Kyklos Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI:10.1111/kykl.12469
Trine Bille, Sebastian Honoré
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Governments in most of the developed world fund arts and culture. Theoretically, the arguments for doing so are based on the arts and culture being public goods or providing positive externalities. The size of the externalities for a variety of cultural goods has been empirically investigated in numerous stated preference studies. However, the existence of externalities has not previously been tested as a causal relation. In this paper we are testing the existence of externalities of cultural consumption (cultural capital externalities) for Danish theatres. We are doing this based on a theoretical model, where a private consumption jointly produces private and public goods. We exploit variation generated by a national ticket purchasing scheme to estimate the causal effects of theatre consumption on public returns. We find that there are significant cultural capital externalities for users, but we find no effects for non-users, pointing towards peer-effects rather than externalities. Even though there are some limitations to our study, it shows that it is possible to test the existence of externalities of cultural consumption in an empirically convincing causal set-up.

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文化资本外部性:来自丹麦剧院票务计划的因果证据
大多数发达国家的政府都资助艺术和文化。从理论上讲,这样做的理由是基于艺术和文化是公共产品或提供正外部性。各种文化产品的外部性的大小已经在许多陈述偏好研究中进行了实证调查。然而,外部性的存在之前并没有作为一种因果关系进行检验。在本文中,我们正在测试丹麦剧院文化消费外部性(文化资本外部性)的存在。我们这样做是基于一个理论模型,即私人消费共同生产私人产品和公共产品。我们利用国家购票计划产生的变化来估计剧院消费对公众回报的因果影响。我们发现,文化资本对用户有显著的外部性,但对非用户没有影响,这表明是对等效应而不是外部性。尽管我们的研究存在一些局限性,但它表明,在经验上令人信服的因果关系设置中测试文化消费外部性的存在是可能的。
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期刊介绍: KYKLOS views economics as a social science and as such favours contributions dealing with issues relevant to contemporary society, as well as economic policy applications. Since its inception nearly 60 years ago, KYKLOS has earned a worldwide reputation for publishing a broad range of articles from international scholars on real world issues. KYKLOS encourages unorthodox, original approaches to topical economic and social issues with a multinational application, and promises to give fresh insights into topics of worldwide interest
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