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baseball team, combined with past studies suggesting income does not affect minor league baseball attendance, leads us to …
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We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from other mechanisms such as players' familiarity with the stadium and travel fatigue. To evaluate the relevance of crowd support in determining home advantage we analyze...
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While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has induced worldwide natural experiments on the effects of crowds. We exploit one of these experiments currently taking place over several countries in almost identical settings: professional football matches played behind closed doors. We find large and statistically...
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This paper investigates the determinants of game-day attendance in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) from … consequently leads to higher attendance. Moreover, the results of the quantile regression show that these effects are especially … factors such as the quality of play and the Derby effect also significantly influence game-day attendance. Moreover, the …
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This paper investigates the effects of the recent economic crisis on Major League Baseball (MLB) attendance during the … estimates for the coincident indicators suggest the economic downturn drove a fall in attendance of about 6.5%, compared to the … attendance in MLB suggests the indicator is a viable proxy for income in game attendance demand studies. …
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football on TV can make it difficult to maintain attendance levels at the stadium. Fans of clubs that were featured the most … necessary to maintain attendance levels. Fans that had strong preferences for foreign football attended less frequently. This … in maintaining attendance levels. As a result, a strategy aimed at strengthening the bonds between fans and clubs may be …
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Cactus League was proposed. We find that the Cubs increase attendance when they are the away team by about 37%. Thus, the …
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increased scrutiny. This study examines the role of fighting, along with other factors, as it relates to attendance in the top …
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between competitive balance and regular season average attendance in Major League Baseball (MLB) using the actual to idealized … standard deviation ratio exits. This paper examines the effect that competitive balance has on MLB attendance between the … a significant inverse relationship between the ratio, games behind, and regular season average attendance. This confirms …
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