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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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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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An Examination of the Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Major League Baseball (MLB) Attendance Demand
Coates, Dennis; Hong, Sung Il; Mondello, Michael - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
We investigate the effects of the recent economic crisis on Major League Baseball (MLB) attendance during the 2008 and …. The estimates for the coincident indicators suggests the economic downturn drives a fall in attendance of about 6 … crisis on attendance in MLB suggests the indicator is a viable proxy for income in game attendance demand studies. …
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The determinants of demand in football matches during the 2007 Brazilian Championship
Santana, Synthia Kariny Silva de; Silva, Alexandre … - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2009
more transparently managed, it is necessary to examine the factors that now determine the attendance at football matches …
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Price, Income & Unemployment Effects on Greek Professional Football
Avgerinou, Vassiliki; Giakoumatos, Stefanos - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2009
investigate the effect of sporting and economic variables on the attendance in Greek football stadia. Price, income and …
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The economics of discrimination : evidence from basketball
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009
This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...
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The flexibility of the workweek in the United States : evidence from the FIFA World Cup
Lozano, Fernando - 2009
In this paper I explore the flexibility of the work week in the United States, using the FIFA Soccer World Cup as a natural experiment. My empirical strategy exploits the exogenous variation that arises due to which country hosts the World Cup, as this will determine the time games are broadcast...
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Explaining the favorite-longshot bias : is it risk-love or misperceptions?
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...
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Gambling and the use of credit : an individual and household level analysis
Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andrew P.; McHardy, Jolian P.; … - 2010
We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling...
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