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THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT FUNDING ON PRIVATE CONTRIBUTIONS TO NONPROFIT PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Author(s) -
Smith Thomas More
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
annals of public and cooperative economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-8292
pISSN - 1370-4788
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8292.2007.00329.x
Subject(s) - symphony , the arts , dance , government (linguistics) , crowding out , performing arts , ballet , public relations , boom , business , cultural economics , crowding , economics , political science , visual arts , psychology , art , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience , environmental engineering , monetary economics , art history
** : This paper tests the crowding‐out hypothesis for a balanced panel of nonprofit performing arts organizations between 1998 and 2003. This research uses a number of model specifications and estimating techniques to appropriately capture the relationship between government grants and private donations. Under alternative specifications, the relationship between government grants and private donations suggests crowding‐in between $0.14 and $1.15. The crowd‐in relationship does change according to art type: symphony orchestras and music companies experience a modest crowd‐in while dance and ballet companies experience a small crowd‐out. Although the crowd‐in falls to zero under the strictest condition, there is a lack of evidence of crowd‐out for nonprofit performing arts organizations as a group.