This study examines the determinants of Major League Soccer team attendance during the league's recent era of growth. Estimates indicate that regular-season on-field performance is positively associated with attendance, but the returns to success are diminishing. Positive novelty effects are...

In 2015, NCAA Division I schools were permitted to cover the “full cost of attendance” as a part of athletic scholarships for the first time. This policy change allowed schools to provide modest living stipends to its athletes. Each school has autonomy to set its cost-of-attendance allowance...

A unique aspect of Major League Soccer (MLS) among professional sports leagues is that it operates with a single-entity ownership structure in which teams are managed by a group of co-investors rather than individual team owners in a joint venture. Revenue-sharing from a common pool raises the...