Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Lanati, Marco 
Author-Email: mauro.lanati@eui.eu
Author-Name: Venturini, Alessandra 
Author-Email: alessandra.venturini
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: The Import of "Cultural Goods" and Emigration: an Unexplored Relation.
Abstract: The paper examines the effect of the import of cultural goods as defined by UNESCO (2009): cultural heritage, performance,
visual arts, books, audio-visual material and design on emigration decisions. The import of cultural goods, by affecting individual
preferences, reduces the cost of any migration move and favors outflows towards exporting countries. A gravity model for 33 OECD 
destination countries and 184 sending ones has been estimated for the period 2009-2013. The issue of identification and endogeneity 
has been addressed through the inclusion of a comprehensive set of fixed effects and by instrumenting cultural imports with past 
flows and an imputed share of cultural imports à la Card (2001). The positive relationship is robust across different classifications
for cultural goods, areas of destination and alternative econometric techniques.
Length: pages 51
Creation-Date: 2017-09
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati/wp2017dip/wp_30_2017.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:dipeco:201730