Do Fans Impact Sports Outcomes? A COVID-19 Natural Experiment(∗)

This paper studies the effect of fan attendance on home field advantage in top European soccer leagues. We exploit exogenous variation in the level of fan attendance driven by COVID-19 mitigation policies and find that the home field advantage, as measured by home minus away (expected) goals, is red...

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Autores principales: Cross, Jeffrey, Uhrig, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9121146/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15270025221100204
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spelling pubmed-91211462023-01-01 Do Fans Impact Sports Outcomes? A COVID-19 Natural Experiment(∗) Cross, Jeffrey Uhrig, Richard J Sports Econom Articles This paper studies the effect of fan attendance on home field advantage in top European soccer leagues. We exploit exogenous variation in the level of fan attendance driven by COVID-19 mitigation policies and find that the home field advantage, as measured by home minus away (expected) goals, is reduced by more than 50% across the English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A, and Spanish La Liga. This leads to a decrease in probability for a home win, indicating that these goals are pivotal with respect to match outcomes. SAGE Publications 2023-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9121146/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15270025221100204 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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