Since our last update, we’ve made additional progress investigating the connection between arts participation and economic disadvantage. We’ve reviewed two new sources and also done “deeper dives” on one of the publications that were a part of our original investigation. This brings our total bibliography on the topic to 35 sources thus far. Here are the updates:Read More
Capsule Review: Attendance and Participation in the Performing Arts
Title: Attendance and Public Participation in the Performing Arts: A Review of the Empirical Literature Author(s): Bruce A. Seaman Publisher: Georgia State University Year: 2005 URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=895099 Topics: economics, econometrics, arts participation, lit review Methods: literature review What it says: This is a critical review of cultural economics research literature, starting with Baumol and Bowen’sRead More
Capsule Review: Stressed Out on 4 Continents
Title: Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch? Author(s): Daniel S. Hamermesh and Jungmin Lee Publisher: The Review of Economics and Statistics Year: 2007 URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40043067 Topics: time stress, high-income households Methods: analysis of data from four different datasets: Australia’s “Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia” survey, Germany’s Socioeconomic Panel, theRead More
Capsule Review: Access to and Participation in the Arts
Title: Access to and Participation in the Arts: the Case of Those with Low Incomes/Educational Attainment Author(s): John W. O’Hagan Publisher: Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Year: 1996 URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00149232 Topics: Equal access to the arts, unequal arts audiences for arts events by educational grouping, constraints/rationale for more equal attendance/audiences, public funding Methods:Read More
Core Research Process Update: February 2015
When Createquity relaunched in October 2014, we identified two broad focus areas for our research investigation: disparities of access and the capacity of our field to create change. In the time since then, we’ve begun to dive into the literature around the first of these topics, and more specifically the relationship between arts participation andRead More
Research Hypotheses: Economic Disadvantage and the Arts
The following research question and hypotheses are among those guiding our core research process at Createquity. They relate to our Disparities of Access editorial content theme. Research question Do economically disadvantaged/insecure people have fewer opportunities to participate fully? Hypotheses Poor and economically insecure adults are significantly less likely to have access to “common” opportunities toRead More
Capsule Review: When Going Gets Tough
The main purpose of the NEA’s newest report is to better understand the motivations for participation in the arts and the barriers faced by people who want to participate but choose not to.
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