Do the arts make you happy? A quantile regression approach

Hand, Chris

doi:10.1007/s10824-017-9302-4

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“…For arts events and historical sites, at the highest levels of reported well-being, positive relationships observed at other levels become negative (although some results are statistically insignificant). This finding is consistent with those reported in Hand (2018) and could similarly reflect diminishing returns on well-being from engagement in certain activities among those reporting the highest levels of well-being. While the logit and generalized logit models indicate a number of subjective wellbeing benefits, a further stage of analysis is required which can provide evidence of the impacts of changes in engagement in arts, culture and sport on subjective 1 Journal of Cultural Economics (2019) 43:421-442 Table 3 Panel change models: satisfaction and leisure activities.…”

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“…This paper contributes to understanding of the well-being impacts of changes in engagement in leisure activities, encompassing the arts, culture and sport. The paper extends the expanding body of recent research in this area, including Hand (2018), Schüttoff et al (2018), Taylor et al (2015) and Wheatley and Bickerton (2017). Existing evidence is consistent with the arts, culture and sport generating well-being benefits through positive leisure experiences, although the evidence base is incomplete and conflicting in some respects (Hand 2018;Marsh and Bertranou 2012;Kahlke 2008, 2010;Wong 2011, 2014).…”

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confidence: 52%

“…Research focusing specifically on the arts and culture is indicative of a number of positive relationships with well-being. Recent UK-based research by Hand (2018) uses quantile regression techniques to consider the well-being effects of engagement in the arts. Findings suggest positive subjective well-being effects at lower levels of happiness, but that these effects may be subject to diminishing returns on happiness at higher levels.…”

Section: The Arts Culture and Sportmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Measuring changes in subjective well-being from engagement in the arts, culture and sport

Wheatley

Bickerton

2019

J Cult Econ

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This paper considers change in subjective well-being from engagement in leisure activities, encompassing the arts, culture and sport. Using UK data from waves 2 (2010-2011) and 5 (2013-2014) of Understanding Society, ordered logit, generalized ordered logit, ANCOVA and change score analysis assesses the effects of changing levels of engagement in leisure activities on four measures of subjective well-being, satisfaction with life overall, amount of leisure time, health and job. We find positive changes in (1) life satisfaction from increased engagement in arts events, historical sites and museums, (2) leisure satisfaction from arts activities and events, (3) health satisfaction from arts events and historical sites and (4) well-being measures from increased participation in moderate-and mild-intensity sport. Benefits do not translate to job satisfaction, suggesting a separation of this domain of well-being from leisure. Our analysis suggests important, but differentiated, positive change in well-being from greater engagement in the arts, culture and sport.

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Section: The Arts Culture and Sportmentioning

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Measuring changes in subjective well-being from engagement in the arts, culture and sport

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Bickerton

2019

J Cult Econ

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“…C. Art and subjective well-being Wheatley and Bickerton (2017) and Hand (2017) provide evidence on the relationship between art and subjective well-being. However, no monetary valuation of the non-market benefits of art assets has been obtained.…”

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The promotion of people's sense of gain and feeling of happiness is the highest goal of China in future economic and social development. Art asset is not only a financial asset for individuals and families but also a way to enhance happiness. By using the ordered probit model and Propensity Matching (PSM) Methods, it explores the impact of art asset allocation on personal and subjective wellbeing. The study finds that family art asset can effectively improve personal well-being and the impact of different groups of art asset allocation on well-being has certain heterogeneity because of different income, education level and so on. IntroductionWith the continuous development of China's social economy and the great enrichment of material products, people began to pursue more social and psychological needs, such as looking forward to a richer spiritual and cultural life. Artworks bear the full emotion and rich value connotation of the creator, meet the socialspiritual aesthetic needs of the viewers, owners and other relevant participants and gradually become the standard asset allocation of people's happy life. As an important way for people to participate in a higher level of cultural life and perceive happiness, family art asset is an important emotional expression window and carrier to make people's happiness more substantial, secure and sustainable. As a combination of tangible and intangible assets, material and spiritual properties, fine works of art have gradually become one of the options for the asset allocation of the public, especially for high net worth people, while meeting people's aesthetic needs and enriching their spiritual life.Personal or family art is not only a way of an asset but also will have some emotional impact based on the particularity. However, there is less discussion about the relationship between art assets and subjective wellbeing in China presently. In Western countries, literature studies have pointed out that the intrinsic value of works of art is closely related to subjective wellbeing. Based on this, this paper uses CFPS household survey data to examine the impact of art asset allocation on subjective wellbeing. According to the existing literature, our work is mainly reflected in the following aspects: First, this article should be the first attempt to discuss the well-being effect of art asset allocation in China, and it will construct virtual variables and value variables of art assets to find the impact on household well-being; The second is to carefully examine the differences of artistic assets on the well-being of different groups, such as urban and rural residents, those with income inequality and educational level differences; The third is to use propensity score matching (PSM) to overcome self-selection. 70We will first comb the existing literature and make a literature review; Then the empirical design and analysis of measurement results are carried out; The third part is the well-being of the mechanism of theoretical interpretation and the results of measurement; ...

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“…Their quantile regression results suggest the effects of income, health and social factors on life satisfaction differs across the range of values of life satisfaction. Subsequent research has applied similar approaches to exploring the relationships between unemployment and subjective well-being (Binder and Coad, 2015), subjective well-being and social quality (Yuan and Gopelwar, 2013), health, income, social relations and subjective well-being (Lamu and Olsen, 2016) and happiness and arts attendance (Hand, 2018).…”

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Spatial influences on domains of life satisfaction in the UK

Hand

2019

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Multiple studies have identified an urban penalty on and regional differences in life satisfaction, but few studies compare the effects of both. This study applies a generalized ordered logit to data on residential location, region of the UK and two different life satisfaction measures. Overall, the regional effect outweighs the rural effect. A stable rural premium for life satisfaction is found; for satisfaction with leisure though, the effect differs across levels of satisfaction (a rural location increases the likelihood of being both highly satisfied and highly dissatisfied). Regional effects are also found to differ across levels of life satisfaction.

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Do the arts make you happy? A quantile regression approach

Cited by 40 publications

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Measuring changes in subjective well-being from engagement in the arts, culture and sport

Measuring changes in subjective well-being from engagement in the arts, culture and sport

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Spatial influences on domains of life satisfaction in the UK

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