How Sensitive are Sports Fans to Unemployment?

J Reade and Jan van Ours

No em-dp2021-12, Economics Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, University of Reading

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.

Keywords: Stadium attendance; football; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D12 Z21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2021-06-03
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Published in Applied Economics Letters, 2023, 30(3): 324-330, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1985064

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Journal Article: How sensitive are sports fans to unemployment? (2023)
Working Paper: How Sensitive are Sports Fans to Unemployment? (2021)
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