A recent New York Times story on the economy cites undergraduate research conducted by an Elon student while she studied at the university earlier this decade.
The Feb. 28 article, “In Downturn, Americans Flock to the Movies,” reports on the surge in business for the movie industry as the economy continues to weaken.
From the Times:
Academic research on the matter is scant. One often-quoted scholarly study by Michelle Pautz, of Elon University, was published by the journal Issues in Political Economy in 2002. Over all, it said, the portion of the American population that attended movies on a weekly basis dropped from around 65 percent in 1930 to about 10 percent in the 1960s, and pretty much stayed there.
Issues in Political Economy is an undergraduate research journal co-published by Elon University and the University of Mary Washington. Pautz was mentored by faculty members Jim Barbour and Steve DeLoach.
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