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league level--that is, the best players appear to be playing in the league regardless of race. Second, players, categorized … by race, are not randomly distributed across teams. Instead, the relationship between team racial composition and …
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Previous work found the racial composition of NBA teams to be positively correlated with the racial composition of their metropolitan markets in the 1980s. We find continued evidence of this relationship during the 1990s, with accompanying revenue gains from the inclusion of White players on...
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This article tests for customer discrimination by examining attendance boosts associated with the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher and Mexican national Fernando Valenzuela. Fernando’s starts were associated with higher attendance at games beginning in 1981 and as late as 1987, and as late as...
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. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i …
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There is a growing literature investigating fan discrimination revealed in markets for sports memorabilia. Such … estimates miss the mark for two reasons. First, simply measuring race as a binary variable may be less insightful than an … alternative measure. Second, although it is the race perceptions of market participants that matter, past studies rely exclusively …
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