Os efeitos da criação de leis de meia entrada para estudantes sobre o consumo de bens e serviços culturais no Brasil

This paper estimates the effects of the laws of half price tickets on the consumption of cultural goods and services of Brazilian students using samples collected for all metropolitan regions from the Household Budget Surveys (HBS), carried out in 1987/88, 1995 / 96, 2002/03 and 2008/09. We evaluate the effects of the laws on the proportion of students that consume cultural services and changes in their expenses with those services. We explore the time differences of the creation of those laws among Brazilian states to estimate a causal relationship using the Difference-in-differences (DD) and Triple differences (DDD) methodology. We found that the laws of half price tickets had positive effects on increasing the likelihood that students consume cultural goods and services and on raising their spending with those goods and services.