Effect of Professional Sports Teams on Social Capital Formation: Comparison Between Football and Baseball in Japan

Eiji Yamamura (cyl02111@nifty.com)

A chapter in The Sports Business in The Pacific Rim, 2015, pp 355-367 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Japanese Professional Football League (JPFL) was established in 1993 in an attempt to enhance social interaction within teams’ home cities through football. In contrast, the Japan Professional Baseball League (JPBL) was created prior to World War II and has been supported mainly by corporate sponsorship. Using individual-level data from 1996, this paper contains over 250,000 observations to investigate how the JPFL enhanced social capital formation in comparison with the JPBL. A bivariate probit estimation showed that in those areas in which a JPFL team home city was located, people were more likely to play football with their neighbors. In contrast, the presence of a JPBL team did not lead people to play baseball with their neighbors.

Keywords: Social Capital; Football Play; Baseball Play; Football Club; Sport League (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10037-1_19

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