Attendance to cultural events and spousal influences: the Italian case

Elisabetta Lazzaro () and Carlofilippo Frateschi ()
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Elisabetta Lazzaro: University of Padua
Carlofilippo Frateschi: University of Padua

No 84, "Marco Fanno" Working Papers from Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno"

Abstract: In cultural consumption it is quite reasonable to expect that the formation and the evolution of preferences, and the related individual choice behaviour, is affected by various interactions within families, peer and other social groups. Our investigation focuses on a specific form of "indirect" interaction effect, that is the reciprocal influence that a married person's preferences and characteristics can have on the cultural consumption of her/his partner. Using the last two available nationwide crosssection datasets on the leisure activities of the Italian population (ISTAT, 1995 and 2000), we estimate the mutual influence of spouses's educational and cultural background, besides other factors, on the consumption of three kinds of cultural activities, namely museum/exhibition, theatre, and opera and classical music concerts.

Keywords: Mutual social interactions; cultural consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D79 Z11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2008-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-cul, nep-soc and nep-tur
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