The economic impact of the Writers-in-the-Schools program at UNLV: 2003

In 2002, the College of Liberal Arts received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the International Institute for Modern Letters, and Park Place Entertainment to bring the Writers-in-the-Schools program to the University of Las Vegas. In this paper, I employ surveys to determine the economic impact of the WITS program in the Las Vegas community. Four nationally recognized writers conducted public readings at UNLV, and those that attended these events were the subject of this study. Through employing the logit and probit methods of estimation in a theoretical Random Utility Model, the mean willingness to pay to attend the events were {dollar}6.73 and {dollar}6.75, respectively. Further, the total money spent in the different categories offered in the survey were inputted in an IMPLAN regional input-output model to estimate the total impact of the events on value-added, employment, and output in the Las Vegas community. These estimates were {dollar}25,426, 0.9 (jobs), and {dollar}41,897, respectively.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

2003

Author dc:creator

• Stikich, Jennifer

Contributors dc:contributor

• Thomas Carroll

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1564

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2563