Rights statement: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Oxford Economic Papers following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Babatunde Buraimo, Giuseppe Migali, Rob Simmons, Impacts of the Great Recession on sport: evidence from English Football League attendance demand, Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 74, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 155–177, https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaa055, is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/oep/article-abstract/74/1/155/6163131
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Impacts of The Great Recession on sport
T2 - evidence from English football league attendance demand
AU - Buraimo, Babatunde
AU - Migali, Giuseppe
AU - Simmons, Robert
N1 - This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Oxford Economic Papers following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Babatunde Buraimo, Giuseppe Migali, Rob Simmons, Impacts of the Great Recession on sport: evidence from English Football League attendance demand, Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 74, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 155–177, https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaa055, is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/oep/article-abstract/74/1/155/6163131
PY - 2022/1/12
Y1 - 2022/1/12
N2 - This article investigates the impact of the 2007–9 Great Recession on attendance demand in the English Football League. We identify causal effects of variations in local unemployment rates on club matchday attendances using a difference-in-difference methodology applied to specific treatment and control group clubs categorized according to severity of local unemployment increase during the recession period. We find that treatment clubs in Tiers 3 and 4 suffered an attendance reduction of 10.5% purely through rising unemployment in local Travel to Work Areas containing clubs’ stadia after controlling for a large set of confounding influences. Smaller but still significant effects are found in alternative specifications, including the incorporation of Tier 2 clubs into the analysis.
AB - This article investigates the impact of the 2007–9 Great Recession on attendance demand in the English Football League. We identify causal effects of variations in local unemployment rates on club matchday attendances using a difference-in-difference methodology applied to specific treatment and control group clubs categorized according to severity of local unemployment increase during the recession period. We find that treatment clubs in Tiers 3 and 4 suffered an attendance reduction of 10.5% purely through rising unemployment in local Travel to Work Areas containing clubs’ stadia after controlling for a large set of confounding influences. Smaller but still significant effects are found in alternative specifications, including the incorporation of Tier 2 clubs into the analysis.
U2 - 10.1093/oep/gpaa055
DO - 10.1093/oep/gpaa055
M3 - Journal article
VL - 74
SP - 155
EP - 177
JO - Oxford Economic Papers
JF - Oxford Economic Papers
SN - 0030-7653
IS - 1
ER -