THEATER AND FILM ARTISTS

 

National Survey of the Author’s League (1957)

Investigator: William J. Lord, Author’s League of America

Population: Playwrights

Identification method: Members of the Author’s League.

Sampling procedure: All active members identified, and a little more than half of the inactive members were sampled.

N and Response rate: 18 percent (405 of 2,250)

Publication: Baumol, William and William Bowen. 1966. "The Performer, The Composer, the Playwright and the Choreographer." Chapter 5 (pp. 99-135) in The Performing Arts: The Economic Dilemma. New York: The 20th Century Fund.

Summary: This study examined the earnings of playwrights.

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