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Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools?

Gershenson, Seth; Jacknowitz, Alison; Brannegan, Andrew - 2015

Student absences are a potentially important, yet understudied, input in the educational process. Using longitudinal data from a nationally-representative survey and rich administrative records from North Carolina, we investigate the relationship between student absences and academic...

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Primary education in India: Prospects of meeting the MDG target

Bhalotra, Sonia; Zamora, Bernarda - 2006

simulations suggest that India will achieve universal attendance, but that primary school completion rates will not exhibit much …

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Six Sigma sales and marketing: application to NCAA basketball

Salzarulo, Peter A.; Krehbiel, Timothy C.; Mahar, Stephen; … - In: American Journal of Business 27 (2012) 2, pp. 113-132

methodology as a way to improve event attendance in a sports marketing setting. The research utilizes the define … attendance for a collegiate men's basketball program. The paper is unique in detailing the use of Six Sigma, a traditional …

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The Effects of Labor Strikes on Consumer Demand: A Re-examination of Major League Baseball

Matheson, Victor - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2004

-term losses in attendance but have not resulted in any long-term effects on attendance. While total attendance at MLB games … baseball attendance has dropped significantly since the 1994/95 strike. …

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Minor League Baseball Attendance in the Pacific Northwest: A Study of the Effects of Winning, Scoring, Demographics and Promotions in the Northwest and Pioneer Baseball Leagues

Paul, Rodney J.; Weinbach, Andrew P. - In: Ekonomika a managment 2011 (2011) 2

The Pacific Northwest of the United States houses two short-season baseball minor leagues. The Pioneer League (Rookie) and Northwest League (A-short season) are located in the same geographic area, but the Northwest League contains teams in larger cities, on the average, compared to the Pioneer...

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ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИЕ И ПРАКТИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ ОЦЕНКИ СТОИМОСТИ САЙТА

МАНСУРОВА Н.А.; МЕТЛИН И.А. - In: Экономические исследования (2015) 3

В статье обосновывается необходимость проведения оценки стоимости Интернет-сайта. Представлены основные методы оценки стоимости сайта. Проводится детальный...

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Major League Baseball: America’s Recession-Proof Pastime

McDonnell, Mark - 2010

This project is a study which examines how attendance levels in Major League Baseball stadiums have been impacted by … the current recession in the United States which began in October 2007. Research on attendance during past recessions has … shown a strong relationship that during downtrends in the economy, baseball attendance levels generally do not suffer. Using …

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Pre- and within-season attendance forecasting in Major League Baseball: A random forest approach

Mueller, Steffen Q. - 2018

This study explores the forecasting of Major League Baseball game ticket sales and identifies important attendance … lagged attendance forecast. My empirical results show high variation in team-specific prediction accuracy with respect to …

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Experimental Effects of an Absent Crowd on Performances and Refereeing Decisions during COVID-19

Bryson, Alex; Dolton, Peter; Reade, J. James; Schreyer, … - 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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Using reminders with different reward opportunities to reduce no-show behavior: Empirical evidence from a large-scale field experiment in professional sports

Schreyer, Dominik; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; Torgler, Benno - 2020

Because no-show behavior typically leads to operational inefficiencies and thus diminishing returns for service firms, a growing number of authors have demonstrated the potential of using reminders to reduce no-show rates. In this study, by examining the behavioral responses of 13,911 season...

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