Douglas S Noonan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1521673 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Douglas S Noonan |
| NOMBRES | Douglas S |
| APELLIDO | Noonan |
| FIRMA | NOONAN D S |
| AFILIACIONES | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4654-9077 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
From intuition to evidence
Cultural economics can provide a stronger rationale for government support of the arts. An economic justification for public funding for cultural institutions typically invokes positive externalities, yet the empirical base for cultural spillovers remains weak. We outline the challenges in quantifying social returns to cultural participation and propose a framework and an empirical research agenda to improve the policy relevance of cultural econo…
Testing the empirical validity of the work preference labor supply model
This study investigates the impact of the Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) Guaranteed Income for Artists (GIA) program on labor supply and earnings among New York State artists. The program provided 2400 artists with $1000 monthly, unconditional payments for 18 months to address financial instability and promote artistic practices. Using a matched comparison of participant and control group data, the analysis reveals that guaranteed income incre…
Impacts of flood zoning policies on housing markets
Floods pose significant threats in the United States, and the National Flood Insurance Program uses Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) designations to guide regulations intended to reduce flood damage. Yet the effect of SFHA regulation on housing markets is difficult to identify because floodplain status is correlated with flood risk and unobserved amenities. This study estimates SFHA policy effects on assessed housing values by combining parcel-le…
GenAI and Creative Labor
Creative work has long been viewed as resistant to automation, grounded in human capacities for judgment, interpretation, and expression. The rapid diffusion of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) challenges this assumption by introducing tools capable of producing plausible creative outputs and destabilizing the boundary between assistance and substitution. This editorial introduces a special issue on AI and creative labor and advances a …
Basic income for artists programs
The “Bloomington Issue”
Sharing the Stage
This paper examines and compares the funding distribution inequities in arts organizations across three different funding institutions-government grantmaking, charitable contributions, and crowdfunding-through different inequity measures. Based on three different datasets including the National Endowment for the Arts grants data, National Center for Charitable Statistics data, and Kickstarter crowdfunding data starting in 2009, we find that compa…
For a new cultural economics
Ideology and policy decision-making in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic in the USA
The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenge for the health systems of many countries. In the USA, COVID-19 accentuated political polarity. On the one hand, the defenders of more severe public health measures and, on the other, the advocates of individual rights and freedom above any other consideration. In this study, we analyse whether political partisanship and the political ideology of the different states of the USA have influenced the way COVID-19…
Pommerehne Prize, President’s Prize and Young Researchers Workshop Best Paper Award
Flocking to the crowd
Arts and cultural entrepreneurship
Participation and non-participation in Fema's Community Rating System (CRS) program
Crowdfunding in a not-so-flat world
This article analyzes the geographic clustering of crowdfunding (CF) activity across two countries at the city level. We find that the ability of Kickstarter projects to attract funding or backers is spikier than the simple number of projects, suggesting that while the locations of Kickstarter projects are not as clustered, projects that are able to recruit funding are clustering. In addition, we find that digital media (DM) projects cluster more…
A comparative analysis of US and EU regulatory frameworks of crowdfunding for the cultural and creative industries
In the face of the dramatic shrinking of public and private funding, the arts, culture and creative industries are increasingly relying on crowdfunding (CCCF). Furthermore, crowdfunding is relevant for its informative, promotional, co-creative and democratizing features. Yet CCCF is still a fragmented and below-potential market. Main reasons for this untapped potential include a lack of transparency and trust affected by national regulatory frame…
Community-scale Flood Risk Management
The arts, Bohemian scenes, and income
Where and how does arts activity drive neighbourhood revitalization? We explore the impact of arts establishments on income in US zip codes, nationally and across quantiles (from four to seven subgroups) of zip codes stratified by disadvantage (based on income and ethnicity/race). We focus on what is new here: how neighbourhood scenes or the mixes of amenities mediate relationships between the arts and income. One dramatic finding is that more bo…
Environmental Justice and Green Schools—Assessing Students and Communities’ Access to Green Schools
Objective We investigate equity in the distribution of green schools, what kind of student populations they serve, and what kinds of communities host them. Methods Leveraging national school enrollment data (2000–2014), Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design data, and communities’ characteristics data from 2010 U.S. Census, we estimate logit models to examine the association between green schools and student and community demographics. Res…
Entrepreneurship among Nonprofit Arts Organizations
Nonprofit entrepreneurship is largely viewed through the lens of commercialization, overshadowing other ways that entrepreneurship manifests within the sector. One such way involves nonprofits ' tendency to meet workforce needs by substituting flexible for wage labor, which may be especially attractive to arts organizations given the proclivity of workers in this sector to be self‐employed. The authors examine the use of flexible versus wage labo…
Planting the seed to grow local creative industries
The impact of arts and culture on local economies has been studied extensively. However, a review of the literature finds conflicting and critical results regarding the impact of cultural on economic outcomes. In this paper, we shift attention to examine different intermediaries and concentrations of cultural agents that can influence growth and innovation in the "creative economy." Thus, we build on previous work and expand on it by refining the…
The closer the better? Examining support for a large urban redevelopment project in Atlanta
The Atlanta BeltLine (BeltLine) is a large urban redevelopment project that is transforming 22 miles of historical railroad corridors into parks, trails, pedestrian-friendly transit, and affordable housing in the center of Atlanta, Georgia. This study examines how proximity to the BeltLine and other factors relate to public support for it, with data from a general public survey conducted in the summer of 2009. The result shows that support signif…
Economic, sociological, and neighbor dimensions of energy efficiency adoption behaviors
Spatial Regulation of Air Toxics Hot Spots
This paper analyzes the potential implications, in terms of net social costs and distribution of risks and abatement costs, of a policy to address the problem of air toxics “hot spots.” The policy we analyze involves regulation of air toxics sources at increasingly finer spatial resolutions. We develop a model of a decisionmaker choosing emission standards within a net cost minimization framework. Empirical application of the model to two countie…
Arts of the states in crisis-Revisiting determinants of state-level appropriations to arts agencies
Clearly, much has happened to the state of public coffers and their ability to finance the arts in the past decade. This study extends Noonan (2007) into the next decade and the “Great Recession” that hit the U.S. (and world) economy-with state public finances severely exposed to the downward economic shock. The emphasis of the empirical analysis here is answering a twofold question: how well have past models predicted the past decade of funding …
Arts districts, universities, and the rise of digital media
Evidence of Environmental Justice
Objective. This article gleans important lessons for environmental justice (EJ) policy from the empirical literature and demonstrates them using EJ analyses of Superfund sites. It constructively critiques the EJ literature and suggests some future directions for designing policy and framing the discourse. Methods. The research methods of many quantitative EJ studies are reviewed. To demonstrate sensitivity to researchers' choices, logit models ar…
Smoggy with a Chance of Altruism
Metropolitan smog alerts are prominent public information campaigns designed to enhance public health and to curb driving and other emissions. Unlike many other voluntary information‐based environmental policies, air quality alerts target household behavior via forecast information about ambient concentrations rather than firm or product characteristics. This paper explores behaviors with high emissions (driving) and with high exposure (outdoor r…
Neighbours, Barriers and Urban Environments
Most earlier models of residential sorting employ a 'featureless plain', paying little attention to cities' physical environments. The empirical question of physical features mitigating neighbour externalities remains largely unexplored. This article adds to the literature by considering the environmental aspects of group boundaries. Physical barriers that mitigate the externality of neighbours' characteristics should be expected to have importan…
How US cultural districts reshape neighbourhoods
Cultural districts are an increasingly popular and important element of both urban and cultural experiences in the USA. Cultural districts get invoked as a tool for revitalising neighbourhoods and regions, cultivating arts and cultural resources, and other goals. This article briefly describes the phenomenon of cultural districts in the USA, reviews some claims made about their impacts, and provides evidence of districts' effects. Neighbourhood-l…
Entrepreneurship among Nonprofit Arts Organizations
Nonprofit entrepreneurship is largely viewed through the lens of commercialization, overshadowing other ways that entrepreneurship manifests within the sector. One such way involves nonprofits ' tendency to meet workforce needs by substituting flexible for wage labor, which may be especially attractive to arts organizations given the proclivity of workers in this sector to be self‐employed. The authors examine the use of flexible versus wage labo…
Crowdfunding in a not-so-flat world
This article analyzes the geographic clustering of crowdfunding (CF) activity across two countries at the city level. We find that the ability of Kickstarter projects to attract funding or backers is spikier than the simple number of projects, suggesting that while the locations of Kickstarter projects are not as clustered, projects that are able to recruit funding are clustering. In addition, we find that digital media (DM) projects cluster more…
A comparative analysis of US and EU regulatory frameworks of crowdfunding for the cultural and creative industries
In the face of the dramatic shrinking of public and private funding, the arts, culture and creative industries are increasingly relying on crowdfunding (CCCF). Furthermore, crowdfunding is relevant for its informative, promotional, co-creative and democratizing features. Yet CCCF is still a fragmented and below-potential market. Main reasons for this untapped potential include a lack of transparency and trust affected by national regulatory frame…
Arts of the states in crisis-Revisiting determinants of state-level appropriations to arts agencies
Clearly, much has happened to the state of public coffers and their ability to finance the arts in the past decade. This study extends Noonan (2007) into the next decade and the “Great Recession” that hit the U.S. (and world) economy-with state public finances severely exposed to the downward economic shock. The emphasis of the empirical analysis here is answering a twofold question: how well have past models predicted the past decade of funding …
Economic, sociological, and neighbor dimensions of energy efficiency adoption behaviors
Urban transformation and individual responsibility
We consider the case of the proposed Atlanta BeltLine to shed light on what may be crucial limits to ethical decision making and responsible action in shaping or reshaping the built environment, especially as those limits enter into the lived experience of individual residents of metropolitan areas. Drawing from theoretical sources in the humanities and social sciences, we consider the scope and limits of responsible individual conduct within com…
Sharing the Stage
This paper examines and compares the funding distribution inequities in arts organizations across three different funding institutions-government grantmaking, charitable contributions, and crowdfunding-through different inequity measures. Based on three different datasets including the National Endowment for the Arts grants data, National Center for Charitable Statistics data, and Kickstarter crowdfunding data starting in 2009, we find that compa…
The closer the better? Examining support for a large urban redevelopment project in Atlanta
The Atlanta BeltLine (BeltLine) is a large urban redevelopment project that is transforming 22 miles of historical railroad corridors into parks, trails, pedestrian-friendly transit, and affordable housing in the center of Atlanta, Georgia. This study examines how proximity to the BeltLine and other factors relate to public support for it, with data from a general public survey conducted in the summer of 2009. The result shows that support signif…
Spatial Regulation of Air Toxics Hot Spots
This paper analyzes the potential implications, in terms of net social costs and distribution of risks and abatement costs, of a policy to address the problem of air toxics “hot spots.” The policy we analyze involves regulation of air toxics sources at increasingly finer spatial resolutions. We develop a model of a decisionmaker choosing emission standards within a net cost minimization framework. Empirical application of the model to two countie…
Contingent Valuation and Cultural Resources
Neighbours, Barriers and Urban Environments
Most earlier models of residential sorting employ a 'featureless plain', paying little attention to cities' physical environments. The empirical question of physical features mitigating neighbour externalities remains largely unexplored. This article adds to the literature by considering the environmental aspects of group boundaries. Physical barriers that mitigate the externality of neighbours' characteristics should be expected to have importan…
Scales of justice
Many empirical environmental justice (EJ) studies lack a systematic framework in which to undertake research and interpret results. This paper characterizes the conventional EJ study and examines how results can be influenced by the choice of the spatial scale and scope of analysis. After thoroughly reviewing a sample of prominent EJ studies, a conventional EJ study was performed for (Superfund) National Priorities List sites at multiple scales a…
Fiscal pressures, institutional context, and constituents
Ecology and valuation
Evidence of Environmental Justice
Objective. This article gleans important lessons for environmental justice (EJ) policy from the empirical literature and demonstrates them using EJ analyses of Superfund sites. It constructively critiques the EJ literature and suggests some future directions for designing policy and framing the discourse. Methods. The research methods of many quantitative EJ studies are reviewed. To demonstrate sensitivity to researchers' choices, logit models ar…
Hot spots regulation and environmental justice
Where the Cathedrals and Bazaars Are
This article presents a framework to measure activity and potential for open source software development and use at a country level. The framework draws on interviews with experts in the open source software industry and numerous existing studies in the literature to identify relevant indicators. Several indices of diverse variable lists and weighting and aggregation methods were developed and tested for robustness. The results provide a first st…
Urban transformation and individual responsibility
We consider the case of the proposed Atlanta BeltLine to shed light on what may be crucial limits to ethical decision making and responsible action in shaping or reshaping the built environment, especially as those limits enter into the lived experience of individual residents of metropolitan areas. Drawing from theoretical sources in the humanities and social sciences, we consider the scope and limits of responsible individual conduct within com…
How US cultural districts reshape neighbourhoods
Cultural districts are an increasingly popular and important element of both urban and cultural experiences in the USA. Cultural districts get invoked as a tool for revitalising neighbourhoods and regions, cultivating arts and cultural resources, and other goals. This article briefly describes the phenomenon of cultural districts in the USA, reviews some claims made about their impacts, and provides evidence of districts' effects. Neighbourhood-l…
Arts districts, universities, and the rise of digital media
Smoggy with a Chance of Altruism
Metropolitan smog alerts are prominent public information campaigns designed to enhance public health and to curb driving and other emissions. Unlike many other voluntary information‐based environmental policies, air quality alerts target household behavior via forecast information about ambient concentrations rather than firm or product characteristics. This paper explores behaviors with high emissions (driving) and with high exposure (outdoor r…
Economic, sociological, and neighbor dimensions of energy efficiency adoption behaviors
Spatial Regulation of Air Toxics Hot Spots
This paper analyzes the potential implications, in terms of net social costs and distribution of risks and abatement costs, of a policy to address the problem of air toxics “hot spots.” The policy we analyze involves regulation of air toxics sources at increasingly finer spatial resolutions. We develop a model of a decisionmaker choosing emission standards within a net cost minimization framework. Empirical application of the model to two countie…
Arts of the states in crisis-Revisiting determinants of state-level appropriations to arts agencies
Clearly, much has happened to the state of public coffers and their ability to finance the arts in the past decade. This study extends Noonan (2007) into the next decade and the “Great Recession” that hit the U.S. (and world) economy-with state public finances severely exposed to the downward economic shock. The emphasis of the empirical analysis here is answering a twofold question: how well have past models predicted the past decade of funding …
The closer the better? Examining support for a large urban redevelopment project in Atlanta
The Atlanta BeltLine (BeltLine) is a large urban redevelopment project that is transforming 22 miles of historical railroad corridors into parks, trails, pedestrian-friendly transit, and affordable housing in the center of Atlanta, Georgia. This study examines how proximity to the BeltLine and other factors relate to public support for it, with data from a general public survey conducted in the summer of 2009. The result shows that support signif…
Planting the seed to grow local creative industries
The impact of arts and culture on local economies has been studied extensively. However, a review of the literature finds conflicting and critical results regarding the impact of cultural on economic outcomes. In this paper, we shift attention to examine different intermediaries and concentrations of cultural agents that can influence growth and innovation in the "creative economy." Thus, we build on previous work and expand on it by refining the…
Community-scale Flood Risk Management
The arts, Bohemian scenes, and income
Where and how does arts activity drive neighbourhood revitalization? We explore the impact of arts establishments on income in US zip codes, nationally and across quantiles (from four to seven subgroups) of zip codes stratified by disadvantage (based on income and ethnicity/race). We focus on what is new here: how neighbourhood scenes or the mixes of amenities mediate relationships between the arts and income. One dramatic finding is that more bo…
Environmental Justice and Green Schools—Assessing Students and Communities’ Access to Green Schools
Objective We investigate equity in the distribution of green schools, what kind of student populations they serve, and what kinds of communities host them. Methods Leveraging national school enrollment data (2000–2014), Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design data, and communities’ characteristics data from 2010 U.S. Census, we estimate logit models to examine the association between green schools and student and community demographics. Res…
Entrepreneurship among Nonprofit Arts Organizations
Nonprofit entrepreneurship is largely viewed through the lens of commercialization, overshadowing other ways that entrepreneurship manifests within the sector. One such way involves nonprofits ' tendency to meet workforce needs by substituting flexible for wage labor, which may be especially attractive to arts organizations given the proclivity of workers in this sector to be self‐employed. The authors examine the use of flexible versus wage labo…
Participation and non-participation in Fema's Community Rating System (CRS) program
Crowdfunding in a not-so-flat world
This article analyzes the geographic clustering of crowdfunding (CF) activity across two countries at the city level. We find that the ability of Kickstarter projects to attract funding or backers is spikier than the simple number of projects, suggesting that while the locations of Kickstarter projects are not as clustered, projects that are able to recruit funding are clustering. In addition, we find that digital media (DM) projects cluster more…
A comparative analysis of US and EU regulatory frameworks of crowdfunding for the cultural and creative industries
In the face of the dramatic shrinking of public and private funding, the arts, culture and creative industries are increasingly relying on crowdfunding (CCCF). Furthermore, crowdfunding is relevant for its informative, promotional, co-creative and democratizing features. Yet CCCF is still a fragmented and below-potential market. Main reasons for this untapped potential include a lack of transparency and trust affected by national regulatory frame…
Pommerehne Prize, President’s Prize and Young Researchers Workshop Best Paper Award
Economics (26 obras) · Political science (23 obras) · Sociology (20 obras) · The arts (17 obras) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (15 obras) · Geography (15 obras) · Business (13 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Cultural economics (8 obras)