Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237781 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2021-048/V
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
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.
Subjects: 
Stadium attendance
football
unemployment
JEL: 
C23
Z21
D12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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