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Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access published online on August 31, 2007
Journal of Economic Geography, doi:10.1093/jeg/lbm029
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© The Author (2007).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Emoting with their feet: Bohemian attraction to creative milieu{dagger}

Timothy R. Wojan*, Dayton M. Lambert** and David A. McGranahan*

*Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, DC 20036, USA. email < twojan{at}ers.usda.gov>, < dmcg{at}ers.usda.gov>
**Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996–4500. email < dmlambert{at}tennessee.edu>

Creative class theory posits that creative people are attracted to places most conducive to creative activity. The association of the share of employment in the arts with various indicators of economic dynamism provides plausible support for this conjecture. We explicitly test this conjecture by modeling the 1990 share of employment in the arts at the county level, and then use the residual from this regression to explain differences in various measures of economic dynamism between 1990 and 2000. Our results support the hypothesis that an unobserved creative milieu that attracts artists increases local economic dynamism.

Keywords: artist location, human-scale interaction, economic dynamism, spatial econometrics,
JEL classifications: Z11, R11, O18, C31
Date submitted: 25 January 2007     Date accepted: 18 July 2007


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