Education, income and cultural participation across Europe

  1. Perez-Villadoniga, Maria J. 1
  2. Suarez-Fernandez, Sara 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Journal:
Cuadernos económicos de ICE

ISSN: 0210-2633

Year of publication: 2019

Issue Title: Economía de la Cultura

Issue: 98

Pages: 89-103

Type: Article

DOI: 10.32796/CICE.2019.98.6948 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the determinants of cultural participation in four European countries, particularly focusing on education and income. Using data from the 2015 modules of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for Spain, Italy, France and Germany, we estimate a Zero Inflated Ordered Probit (ZIOP) to model participation in two cultural activities: attendance to cinema and visits to sites of cultural interest. We find that the effect of education varies between cinema and cultural visits, being its marginal effect more relevant for the last. On the contrary, given a certain level of education, an increase in income will bring more people to the cinema.

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