Arts Research Quarterly

Spotlighting Secondary Data Analysis in the Arts

Issue 2, July 15, 2021

Arts Research Quarterly is a sampler of research articles on the arts ecosystem and on the arts’ value and impact for individuals and communities, based on data housed at NADAC and elsewhere. New issues are released quarterly. Arts Research Quarterly and NADAC are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Featured Publications

Build It and will They Come?: The Effect of Investing in Cultural Consumption Amenities in Higher Education on Student-Level Outcomes

 

Despite a climate of fiscal scarcity, higher education institutions are making big investments in campus consumption amenities while reducing instructional expenditures and growing increasingly reliant on tuition revenue. Few empirical studies exist exploring why universities increasingly invest …

Diurnal Fluctuations in Musical Preference

The rhythm of human life is governed by diurnal cycles, as a result of endogenous circadian processes evolved to maximize biological fitness. Even complex aspects of daily life, such as affective states, exhibit systematic diurnal patterns which in turn influence behavior. As a result, previous r…