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- Title
The Designated Player Policy Rule and Attendance Demand in Major League Soccer.
- Authors
Rewilak, Johan
- Abstract
Evidence suggests that Major League Soccer's designated player (DP) rule increased match-day attendance in its inaugural season leading to expansion of this policy. However, there is a need to examine whether these findings are robust. Therefore, this paper uses the DP rule as a natural experiment to identify its effect on match-day attendance using a difference-in-difference estimation strategy. In contrast to existing research, when using a difference-in-difference estimator, the statistically significant effect of DPs on attendance vanishes but may be recovered when omitting domestic DPs from the set of DPs.
- Subjects
MAJOR League Soccer (Organization); SOCCER; ATTENDANCE; BECKHAM, David, 1975-
- Publication
Journal of Sports Economics, 2023, Vol 24, Issue 4, p475
- ISSN
1527-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/15270025221134234