Lifestyles and Preferences for (Public) Goods: Professional Football in Munich

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Wolfgang Maennig and Michaela Ölschläger

No 30, Working Papers from Chair for Economic Policy, University of Hamburg

Abstract: This paper investigates the 2001 referendum on the Allianz-Arena, a professional soccer stadium in Munich, Germany, with respect to lifestyle-specific voter preferences. Using political party affiliation and milieu probabilities as proxy variables, we find that lifestyle-specific preferences, values and attitudes more significantly contribute to the explanation of voting outcome compared to traditional strata-orientated indicators of economic wealth. Thus, lifestyle, preferences, tastes and attitudes are not proportionally related to income. Results are robust to stadium proximity effects and spatial dependency.

Keywords: Lifestyle; Milieu; Referendum; Stadium; Munich (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H40 P36 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2009
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Published in Hamburg Contemporary Economic Discussions, Issue 30, 2009

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