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estimate the effects of doubleheaders on attendance. The annual data over various sub-samples from 1920-2009 indicate that the … number of doubleheaders have either a negative or an insignificant effect on annual attendance. The daily data from 1938 …-2009 show that doubleheaders have a very positive effect on attendance on the day of the doubleheaders but that this is …
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) offers unique data to investigate the issue. The announcement of a PED violation: (a) initially reduces home-game attendance … by 8 percent, (b) has no impact on home-game attendance after 15 days, and (c) has a small negative impact on the game … attendance for other MLB teams. This is the first systematic evidence that doping decreases consumer demand for sporting events. …
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removing a university wide policy of mandatory attendance for a single class. His results indicate that while an attendance … implementing a module-specific attendance policy. Our results suggest the link between absenteeism and exam performance is strong … question the uniformity of the relationship between attendance and exam performance. …
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Based on administrative register data from Norway, we examine the impact of hours of daylight on sick-leave absences among workers. Our preferred estimates imply that an additional hour of daylight increases the daily entry rate to absenteeism by 0.5 percent and the corresponding recovery rate...
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influences the MLB game attendance. The results strongly suggest that fantasy baseball participation positively influences MLB … game attendance. …
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The game of baseball was an integral part of life in 20th-century America. The relation baseball had with its fans, though, evolved as the game moved from quiet pastime to a multibillion dollar business. As the presented evidence will suggest, consumer demand at the close of the 20th century was...
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Although Major League Baseball has a long history, most studies of attendance have focused on recent years because … analyzing individual team attendance records between 1904 and 2012. If important missing variables are determined using common … factors that can influence between-team attendance, the attendance function can be estimated by a panel factor model. Our …
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analyze the effect of the World Cup on WPS attendance. The results indicate that attendance for matches played after the World …% attendance bump although this effect is imprecisely estimated. …
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While the determinants of Major League Baseball attendance have been thoroughly researched, the literature is … conspicuously incomplete in regard to the attendance effects of star players. Addressing two concerns in the research, this study … develops two measures of players’ star power and, analyzing within-season fluctuations in game attendance from 1969 …
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specialization levels were carried out. Findings – Specialization level acted as a predictor of salsa event attendance and there … participants negotiating constraints frequently in order to ensure event attendance. Research limitations/implications – The …
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