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

Victor Matheson

No 405, Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics

Abstract: Previous research has concluded that the 1981 and 1994/95 Major League Baseball (MLB) strikes have caused short-term losses in attendance but have not resulted in any long-term effects on attendance. While total attendance at MLB games following the 1994/95 strike has recovered to its pre-strike levels, this has been done only through the construction of new stadiums at an unprecedented pace which cannot continue into the future. After accounting for stadium effects, average MLB baseball attendance has dropped significantly since the 1994/95 strike.

Keywords: baseball; strikes; sports; attendance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 J52 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2004-10
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Published in Applied Economics, Vol. 38:10, June 2006, pp. 1173-1179.

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Journal Article: The effects of labour strikes on consumer demand in professional sports: revisited (2006)
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