内生性
人均
国内生产总值
适度
广告
经济
营销
人口经济学
生活满意度
公共经济学
业务
心理学
经济增长
社会学
社会心理学
计量经济学
人口
人口学
作者
Michael A. Wiles,S. Janani,Darima Fotheringham,Chadwick J. Miller
出处
期刊:Marketing Science
[Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences]
日期:2024-05-01
卷期号:43 (3): 542-563
标识
DOI:10.1287/mksc.2021.0136
摘要
Advertising theory offers competing perspectives on how advertising might affect life satisfaction. For instance, advertising may have some negative effects by increasing materialism, or it may have some positive effects by reducing marketplace uncertainty. Yet research investigating these connections remains limited. We compile a data set of per capita advertising expenditure to investigate advertising’s relationship with life satisfaction within 76 countries from 2006 to 2019. We deal with several sources of endogeneity and account for other determinants of life satisfaction (e.g., gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, social support) in our analysis. Results from a within-country fixed-effect model indicate that per capita advertising expenditure is positively related to national average life satisfaction. Moderation analyses of this aggregate secondary data and two individual-level experiments provide mechanistic evidence that this occurs because of advertising’s ability to reduce marketplace uncertainty. However, supplemental analyses and an additional experiment indicate that this positive relationship is attenuated through a materialism pathway in certain situations (e.g., related to cultural, income, and subjective inequality factors) and can become negative. As such, we provide the first nuanced and multifaceted view of advertising’s complex relationship with life satisfaction in the marketing literature. History: Puneet Manchanda served as the senior editor for this article. Supplemental Material: The e-companion and data are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.2021.0136 .
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