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06 Nov 2024 12:15

Andrea Baldin - The Impact of a Public Voucher for the Arts

Meeting Room 1, San Giobbe Economics Campus + online

Andrea Baldin

Abstract:

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a public voucher scheme for cultural consumption. The voucher was introduced in Italy in 2016 for citizens aged 18 year old. We use repeated cross-sections from the annual household survey ‘Aspects of Daily Life’ for the period 2013-2019 and combine Entropy Balancing with Difference-in-Difference estimation to assess the voucher causal effect on cultural consumption. We find a significant impact of the cultural voucher in fostering participation in cinema, non-classic concerts and reading books and online/e-books, with the effect driven by lower SES individuals. Overall, estimated effects suggest a less-than-total crowding out of public resources. The voucher also generated some spillover effects at the household level, and, in the case of cinema, resulted in a sustained higher consumption, even after the financial support terminated.

The seminar can be attended also remotely, connecting to ZOOM.

Link Zoom: bit.ly/insem-2425
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Lingua

L'evento si terrà in inglese

Organizzatore

Department of Economics (InSeminars)

Link

http://bit.ly/insem-2425

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