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The Rise (and Fall) of the Arena Football League
Foley, Mark; Smith, Fred - In: Atlantic Economic Journal 41 (2013) 4, pp. 439-450
, but attendance has declined dramatically. We examine the determinants of the demand for tickets to AFL games using data …
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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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Empirical approach to the analysis of university student absenteeism: proposal of a questionnaire for students to evaluate the possible causes
Triadó-Ivern, Xavier; Aparicio-Chueca, Pilar; … - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 4, pp. 2281-2288
Works on student absenteeism in the universities have not been preferential for the authors in the field of educational research. Usually, what has been made is an approach to the available absenteeism data as an intervening variable or as a variable characteristic of the educational process,...
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Do Fans Care about Compliance to Doping Regulations in Sports? The Impact of PED Suspension in Baseball
Courty, Pascal; Cisyk, Jeffrey - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2014
) 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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Daylight and absenteeism – Evidence from Norway
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - In: Economics & Human Biology 16 (2015) C, pp. 73-80
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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Major League Baseball Attendance and the Role of Fantasy Baseball
Nesbit, Todd M.; King-Adzima, Kerry A. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 13 (2012) 5, pp. 494-514
influences the MLB game attendance. The results strongly suggest that fantasy baseball participation positively influences MLB … game attendance. …
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Research Note: What Takes Them Out to the Ball Game?
Schmidt, Martin B.; Berri, David J. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 7 (2006) 2, pp. 222-233
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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Major League Baseball Attendance
Ahn, Seung C.; Lee, Young H. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 15 (2014) 5, pp. 451-477
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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Football Frenzy
LeFeuvre, Allie D.; Stephenson, E. Frank; Walcott, Sara M. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 14 (2013) 4, pp. 440-448
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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Attendance Effects of Star Pitchers in Major League Baseball
Ormiston, Russell - In: Journal of Sports Economics 15 (2014) 4, pp. 338-364
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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