How Sensitive are Sports Fans to Unemployment?
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How Sensitive are Sports Fans to Unemployment?
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 2021-048/V
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 25 May 2021
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Date Written: May 2021
Abstract
We analyze attendance of professional football matches in England finding that it is related to unemployment over a very long period of time. More unemployment leads to lower attendances. Distinguishing between leagues, we find that the relationship is larger for lower leagues, i.e. attendance of lower quality football events are more sensitive to fluctuations in unemployment.
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Reade, James and van Ours, Jan C., How Sensitive are Sports Fans to Unemployment? (May 2021). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16171, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3886611
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