Thank you very much for you comment. And thanks for sharing your paper. I'm gonna read it very soon, as I'm myself working on library in France right now! I look forward to meeting you at a conference or elsewhere

Ultimately, the pass Culture is working, but it's not widening participation in the domains the Ministry of Culture usually promotes.

Read the full article here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The takeaway is important for understanding social inequality in cultural consumption: The financial barriers are not very relevant for highbrow culture, but they do appear to contribute to non-participation in popular cultural life among certain youth demographics.

However, I found no significant effect on participation in institutional highbrow activities, such as theater, opera attendance or museum visit.
This suggests that addressing price only does not boost highbrow culture participation.

My econometric analysis, based on a large-scale survey, reveals a key insight about this policy: Culture voucher significantly increases engagement with commercial popular culture, primarily boosting things like cinema attendance and comic book reading.

Over the last decade, many European states have introduced universal culture vouchers—like the €300 French 'pass Culture' offered to all 18-year-olds—to boost cultural participation. But are they truly effective at widening access and bridging social gaps? That's what I test in this paper.

Thank you very much, sir! Sooner or later, I'll share another paper of mine that might interest you. It's about French cultural policy, but I can't say much more!

Evidemment il fait des stats... à bon entendeur...