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Too busy for school? : the effect of athletic participation on absenteeism
Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - 2014
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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Experimental effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during COVID-19
Bryson, Alex; Dolton, Peter J.; Reade, J. James; … - 2020
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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Does the home advantage depend on crowd support? : evidence from same-stadium derbies
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
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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Consumer perceptions matter: A case study of an anomaly in English football
Reade, J. James; van Ours, Jan C. - 2024
introduction. We find that the new point system did not affect match outcomes but it did influence match attendance negatively. We …
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They didn't know what they got till the crowd was gone
van Ours, Jan C. - 2024
This paper revisits the relationship between Covid-19-related absence of stadium attendance and match outcomes …
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No novelty effect but a honeymoon that lasts: On the attendance effects of new football stadiums
van Ours, Jan C. - 2024
In US-based studies focusing on the impact of new sports stadiums on attendance, a recurring observation is the … attendance effects of new sports stadiums in a European sports league, i.e. the top tier of Dutch professional football …. Analyzing data over a period of three decades the main conclusion is that for many new stadiums the positive attendance effect …
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Incentives matter sometimes: On the differences between league and Cup football matches
van Ours, Jan C.; van Tuijl, Martin A. - 2024
attendance, match results, and home advantage. Stadium attendance tends to be lower in Cup matches, although the gap narrows in …
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Assessment of Tourist Competitiveness by analysing Destination Efficiency
Cracolici, Francesca; Rietveld, Piet; Nijkamp, Peter - 2006
Recently the notion and the measurement of destination competitiveness have received increasing attention in the economics literature on tourism. The reason for this interest emerges from both the increasing economic importance of the tourist sector and the increasing competition on the tourist...
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A Firm's First Year
Abbring, Jaap H.; Campbell, Jeffrey R. - 2005
This paper determines the structural shocks that shape a firm's first year by estimating a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival using monthly sales histories from 305 Texas bars. We find that heterogeneity in firms' pre-entry scale decisions accounts for about 40% of their...
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Efficiency and Productivity of Italian Tourist Destinations: A Quantitative Estimation based on Data Envelopment Analysis and the Malmquist Method
Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Nijkamp, Peter - 2006
This paper aims to provide a statistical analysis of the relative economic performance of Italian tourist areas. It uses two modelling approaches to estimate the competitiveness of these regions, viz. data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist method. Our results show that the...
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