The effect of league design on spectator attendance: a regression disontinuity design approach

Barry Reilly and Robert Witt

LSE Research Online Documents on Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

Abstract: This paper exploits a sharp regression discontinuity design to identify the causal impact of the Scottish Premiership League (SPL) “split” on spectator match attendance. We use data drawn from all 19 completed seasons for which this institutional arrangement has been in place. The causal effect of the “split” is to induce, for the last five rounds of games played in the season, a differential in average attendance of about 24% between the clubs that just qualify for the “Championship Play-off” section and those that do not. However, the annualized effect for the season is found to be modest.

Keywords: spectator; attendance; Scottish; Premiership; RDD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2021-06-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cul and nep-spo
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Published in Journal of Sports Economics, 1, June, 2021, 22(5), pp. 514 - 545. ISSN: 1527-0025

Downloads: (external link)
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/113344/ Open access version. (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: The Effect of League Design on Spectator Attendance: A Regression Discontinuity Design Approach (2021)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ehl:lserod:113344

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library LSE Library Portugal Street London, WC2A 2HD, U.K.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by LSERO Manager ().