The effects of the laws of half price tickets for students on the consumption of cultural goods and services in Brazil

Authors

  • Marcos Vinicio Wink Junior Fundação de Economia e Estatística
  • Felipe Garcia Ribeiro Universidade Federal de Pelotas
  • Stefano Florissi Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Pedro Tonon Zuanazzi Fundação de Economia e Estatística

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-416146471mfsp

Keywords:

Cultural economics, Half price laws, Evaluation of public policy

Abstract

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.

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Author Biographies

  • Marcos Vinicio Wink Junior, Fundação de Economia e Estatística

    Doutor em Economia pela UFRGS e pesquisador em economia da Fundação de Economia e Estatística do Rio Grande do Sul (FEE-RS).

  • Felipe Garcia Ribeiro, Universidade Federal de Pelotas

    Doutor em Economia pela EESP-FGV e professor de Economia aplicada do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Organizações e Mercados (PPGOM-UFPel).

  • Stefano Florissi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

    PhD em Economia pela University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign e professor de economia aplicada do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia (PPGE-UFRGS).

  • Pedro Tonon Zuanazzi, Fundação de Economia e Estatística

    Pesquisador em estatística da Fundação de Economia e Estatística do Rio Grande do Sul (FEE-RS) e doutorando em economia da PUCRS.

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01-12-2016

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Wink Junior, M. V., Ribeiro, F. G., Florissi, S., & Zuanazzi, P. T. (2016). The effects of the laws of half price tickets for students on the consumption of cultural goods and services in Brazil. Estudos Econômicos (São Paulo), 46(4), 745-781. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-416146471mfsp