TY - JOUR
T1 - The Association Between Professional Performing Arts and Knowledge Class Growth
T2 - Implications for Metropolitan Economic Development
AU - Nelson, Arthur C.
AU - Dawkins, Casey J.
AU - Ganning, Joanna P.
AU - Kittrell, Katherine G.
AU - Ewing, Reid
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The authors declare partial support for research leading to this article was provided by a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - Economic development in the current century may favor those metropolitan areas that attract the “knowledge class.” This study provides a cross-sectional analysis associating the presence of one or more professional symphony, opera, or ballet/dance organizations with knowledge class growth. The authors find that the presence of one type of such organization is associated with a 1.1% change in knowledge class employment over the period from 2000 to 2010, two types are associated with a 1.5% change, and all three are associated with a 2.2% change. Between 2000 and 2010, the presence of at least one professional performing arts organization is associated with about 540,000 knowledge class jobs, generating about $60 billion in annual income among those 118 metropolitan areas with professional performing arts organizations. Metropolitan economic development implications are offered.
AB - Economic development in the current century may favor those metropolitan areas that attract the “knowledge class.” This study provides a cross-sectional analysis associating the presence of one or more professional symphony, opera, or ballet/dance organizations with knowledge class growth. The authors find that the presence of one type of such organization is associated with a 1.1% change in knowledge class employment over the period from 2000 to 2010, two types are associated with a 1.5% change, and all three are associated with a 2.2% change. Between 2000 and 2010, the presence of at least one professional performing arts organization is associated with about 540,000 knowledge class jobs, generating about $60 billion in annual income among those 118 metropolitan areas with professional performing arts organizations. Metropolitan economic development implications are offered.
KW - economic development
KW - knowledge class
KW - professional performing
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U2 - 10.1177/0891242415619008
DO - 10.1177/0891242415619008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84954445065
SN - 0891-2424
VL - 30
SP - 88
EP - 98
JO - Economic Development Quarterly
JF - Economic Development Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -