Location
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Start Date
1-5-2014 9:00 AM
End Date
1-5-2014 10:00 AM
Project Type
Poster- Restricted to Campus Access
Description
As Americas pastime, baseball has drawn hordes of fans for over one hundred years. There are numerous factors contributing to Major League Baseball attendance, notably baseball-related variables such as rivalries, All Star players, and franchise history. Weather, food prices, and other miscellaneous factors are also related to attendance. This paper examines the effects of local economic conditions on MLB attendance, while controlling for several of the baseball-related variables, for the period 2005-2013. Given various figures for local economic conditions, this paper seeks to determine whether economic factors are significant predictors of baseball attendance.
Faculty Sponsor
Dan LaFave
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Economics Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
599
Local Economic Conditions and Major League Baseball Attendance
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
As Americas pastime, baseball has drawn hordes of fans for over one hundred years. There are numerous factors contributing to Major League Baseball attendance, notably baseball-related variables such as rivalries, All Star players, and franchise history. Weather, food prices, and other miscellaneous factors are also related to attendance. This paper examines the effects of local economic conditions on MLB attendance, while controlling for several of the baseball-related variables, for the period 2005-2013. Given various figures for local economic conditions, this paper seeks to determine whether economic factors are significant predictors of baseball attendance.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2014/program/213