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Determinants of Minor League Baseball Attendance
Gitter, Seth R.; Rhoads, Thomas A. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 11 (2010) 6, pp. 614-628
Like Major League Baseball (MLB), minor league baseball attendance may be influenced by the quality of the team. We use … a minor league team’s winning percentage and attendance. We also find evidence that minor and MLB are substitutes as … increased ticket prices for the nearest MLB team lead to higher minor league attendance if that team is within 100 miles …
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Stadium Alcohol Availability and Baseball Attendance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Chupp, Andrew; Stephenson, E. Frank; Taylor, Ron - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 2 (2007) 1, pp. 36-44
Although conventional wisdom holds that alcohol availability increases baseball attendance, little evidence exists on … the complementarity between attendance and alcohol availability. To address this gap in the literature, we examine the … effect of Rome, Georgia’s November 2004 legalization of Sunday alcohol sales on a minor league baseball team’s attendance …
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Adolescents that do not attend junior high: characterization of their academic trajectory, living conditions and decision to drop out.
de Melo, Gioia; Machado, Alina; Failache, Elisa - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias … - 2015
This article analyzes a survey among 15 year-old adolescents that dropped out of the formal educational system before completing junior high. It is the first study that uses data on cognitive skills, self-perception of skills and expectations of future studies that were gathered when these...
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The Impact of school meals on school participation: Evidence from rural India
Afridi, Farzana - Indian Statistical Institute - 2010
free cooked meals to school children on enrollments and attendance in a rural area of India. School panel data allow a … average monthly attendance rate of girls in grade 1 was more than 12 percentage points higher while there was a positive but … insignificant effect on grade 1 boys' attendance rate. The impact on enrollment levels was insignificant. …
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Impact of Advance Ticket Sales on Attendance in the Finnish Football League
Iho, Antti; Heikkila, Jaakko - In: Journal of Sports Economics 11 (2010) 2, pp. 214-226
linear ordinary least squares (OLS) model for log-attendance data from the years 1991-2007. Match day weather, timing of the … that offering the option of buying the tickets in advance has had an isolated positive effect on attendance for the …
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Estimating Attendance at Major League Baseball Games for the 2007 Season
Lemke, Robert J.; Leonard, Matthew; Tlhokwane, Kelebogile - In: Journal of Sports Economics 11 (2010) 3, pp. 316-348
Using games from Major League Baseball's 2007 season, individual game attendance is estimated using censored normal … regression with home-team fixed-effects. Included in the model are several factors affecting attendance, such as divisional and … interleague rivalries, that to date have been omitted from the literature. The relationship between attendance and game …
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Game Information, Local Heroes, and Their Effect on Attendance: The Case of the Japanese Baseball League
Yamamura, Eiji - In: Journal of Sports Economics 12 (2011) 1, pp. 20-35
a starting pitcher prior to the game affects attendance. The author’s major findings are (a) In the PL, the salary … (and overall number of wins) of the home team’s starting pitcher is positively related to attendance, while that of the … nor that of the visiting team affect attendance. …
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Do Fans Want Close Contests? A Test of the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis in the National Basketball Association
Daniel, Rascher; John Paul, Solmes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The National Basketball Association claims to sell entertainment. Part of that entertainment is close, competitive contests with uncertain outcomes. However, hometown fans want the home team to win. Hence, the optimal probability that the home team wins a game, from the perspective of maximizing...
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Who likes circus animals?
Zanola, Roberto - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 4, pp. 3315-3320
Using a sample based on 268 questionnaires submitted to people attending the Acquatico Bellucci circus, Italy, this paper analyzes the circusgoers's preferences for circus animals. Results show that higher preferences for circus animals are related to frequency of consumption. However,...
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My team is in contention? Nice, I go to the stadium! Competitive intensity in the French football Ligue 1
Scelles, Nicolas; Durand, Christophe; Bonnal, Liliane; … - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 2365-2378
The aim of this article is to investigate the determinants of attendance at French football Ligue 1 matches over the …
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