Previous research has concluded that the 1981 and 1994/95 Major League Baseball (MLB) strikes have caused short-term losses in attendance but have not resulted in any long-term effects on attendance. While total attendance at MLB games following the 1994/95 strike has recovered to its pre-strike levels, this has been done only through the construction of new stadiums at an unprecedented pace which cannot continue into the future. After accounting for stadium effects, average MLB baseball attendance has dropped significantly since the 1994/95 strike.
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Paper provided by College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number
0405.
Length: 13 pages Date of creation: Oct 2004 Date of revision: Publication status: Published in Applied Economics, Vol. 38:10, June 2006, pp. 1173-1179. Handle: RePEc:hcx:wpaper:0405
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