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How free admittance affects charged visits to museums: an analysis of the Italian case

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  • Roberto Cellini
  • Tiziana Cuccia

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This study evaluates the effects of free visits to museums on charged visits. We take the Italian State museums and monuments as the case study, and we consider monthly data, aggregate at the national level, from January 1996 to December 2015. Within a multivariate analysis, which takes into account the seasonal structure of data, we document a positive influence of the number of free visits to museums and monuments on the subsequent charged visits. We also analyse the effect of a recent policy change (July 2014), consisting of an extension of free admittance. We show that the new rule has entailed an increase in both free and charged visits, as well as a stronger link between the patterns of free and charged visits. Our results can be informative in the ever-green debate on the museum attendance and its relations with individual choices and public policies regarding cultural consumption.

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  • Roberto Cellini & Tiziana Cuccia, 2018. "How free admittance affects charged visits to museums: an analysis of the Italian case," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 70(3), pages 680-698.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxecpp:v:70:y:2018:i:3:p:680-698.
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    1. Alessio Emanuele Biondo & Roberto Cellini & Tiziana Cuccia, 2020. "Choices on museum attendance: An agent‐based approach," Metroeconomica, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 71(4), pages 882-897, November.
    2. Roberto Cellini & Tiziana Cuccia, 2019. "Weather conditions and museum attendance: a case-study from Sicily," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 154(3), pages 511-527, June.
    3. Silvia Noirjean & Marco Mariani & Alessandra Mattei & Fabrizia Mealli, 2020. "Exploiting network information to disentangle spillover effects in a field experiment on teens' museum attendance," Papers 2011.11023, arXiv.org, revised May 2022.
    4. David R. Perkins, 2021. "Thermal Environments and Visitor Attendance in Zoological Parks: Observations in A Humid Continental Climate," Journal of Tourismology, Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 7(2), pages 195-225, December.
    5. Roberto Cellini & Tiziana Cuccia & Domenico Lisi, 2020. "Spatial dependence in museum services: an analysis of the Italian case," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 44(4), pages 535-562, December.
    6. Roberto Cellini & Tiziana Cuccia & Livio Ferrante & Domenico Lisi, 2024. "The Quality of Regional Institutional Context and Museum Service Provision: Evidence from Italy," Italian Economic Journal: A Continuation of Rivista Italiana degli Economisti and Giornale degli Economisti, Springer;Società Italiana degli Economisti (Italian Economic Association), vol. 10(1), pages 155-195, March.

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    JEL classification:

    • Z11 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economics of the Arts and Literature
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes

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