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When can economic impact be positive? Nine conditions that explain why smaller sports can have bigger impacts
Agha, Nola; Rascher, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This explanatory research reviews the economic impact literature to identify the conditions that would theoretically allow any sport, large or small, to generate positive economic effects. Nine conditions are identified that, when present, could allow a community to experience a positive...
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Vertical integration and competitive balance in professional sports : evidence from Minor League Baseball
Ge, Qi; Humphreys, Brad R.; Eisert, Alexander - 2022
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The determinants of football match attendance revisited: Empirical evidence from the Spanish Football League
Garcia, Jaume; Rodríguez, Plácido - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001
An attendance equation is estimated using data on individual games played in the Spanish First Division Football League … on attendance for all the variables. The estimated price elasticities are smaller than one in absolute value as usually …
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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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Cost Effectiveness of Interactive Radio Instruction Program Karnataka: Basic and Program Cost Effectiveness
Bakshi, Shubhashansha - eSocialSciences - 2011
The Program CEA extends to the study to an impact analysis of the Radio programs to assess whether the expenditure being made for this intervention is helping the students in improving their learning outcomes. This would then serve as a true measure of effectiveness that is; linking the outreach...
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Performance Evaluation of Cooked Mid-Day Meal (CMDM)
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study covered 17 states and 48 districts. Two blocks from each district were selected. Five schools from each block was selected. A village where the sample school was located stood selected as sample village for canvassing the schedules. From each school/centre 10 beneficiary students (5...
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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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Any Given Sunday: How Season Ticket Holders' Time of Stadium Entrance Is Influenced by Outcome Uncertainty
Schreyer, Dominik; Schmidt, Sascha L.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013
This paper constitutes a unique micro-level exploration of the relation between game outcome uncertainty and the behavior of highly committed season ticket holders of a major Bundesliga soccer team. Specifically, we look at 3,113 season ticket holders attending all 17 home games in the 2012-13...
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DOES THE HOME ADVANTAGE DEPEND ON CROWD SUPPORT? EVIDENCE FROM SAME-STADIUM DERBIES
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e … - 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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