Air Pollution and Attendance in the Chinese Super League: Environmental Economics and the Demand for Sport

Watanabe, Nicholas M.; Yan, Grace; Soebbing, Brian P.; Fu, Wantong

doi:10.1123/jsm.2018-0214

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“…Interestingly, though frequently included as control variables, only a few authors have centered their study on the potential effects of match fixtures/scheduling (Goller & Krumer, 2020; Krumer, 2020; Paul et al, 2004) or both environmental effects and the weather (e.g., Cairns, 1984; Ge et al, 2020; Ito et al, 2016). Among the latter, Watanabe et al (2019), for instance, explored the potential role of air pollution in shaping stadium attendance demand in the Chinese Super League, thus paving an interesting new way towards a better understanding of how spectators respond to potential health threats on matchday – a theme that will certainly gain more importance in the future (e.g., Reade et al, 2020b).…”

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Stadium Attendance Demand Research: A Scoping Review

Schreyer

Ansari²

2021

Journal of Sports Economics

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Because maximizing stadium attendance demand is of utmost importance, for both sports economists and sport management researchers, understanding the potential determinants of such demand better has become a priority in the last decades. Here, conducting a systematic scoping review, we map this previous research in terms of its characteristics, its nature, and its volume, thus offering a concise perspective on what has been previously explored, and, more importantly, what remains to be analyzed in the future. Intriguingly, we observe a lack of studies exploring data generated in both niche and women’s sports, as well as in most emerging markets. Further, the field has not yet established the use of disaggregated stadium attendance data, despite notable potential methodological pitfalls.

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Stadium Attendance Demand Research: A Scoping Review

Schreyer

Ansari²

2021

Journal of Sports Economics

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“…The broader sport management academy has expanded in the important area of financial and economic research (Sloane, 2006). Specific to sport ecology, researchers have applied economic research methods and metadata to understand the link between air pollution and game attendance, including the influence of local air pollution on game attendance (Watanabe et al, 2019) and vice versa (Locke, 2019). Additional studies have considered the effect of air pollution on athlete performance (El Helou et al, 2012;Lippi, Guidi, & Maffuli, 2008) and even umpire performance (Archsmith et al, 2018).…”

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Sport Ecology: Conceptualizing an Emerging Subdiscipline Within Sport Management

McCullough

Orr

Kellison

2020

Journal of Sport Management

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The relationship between sport and the natural environment is bidirectional and critical to the production of sport products, events, and experiences. Researchers have studied sport and the natural environment within the various subdisciplines of sport management. However, given the changing climate and mounting public concern for the environment, there is pressure to reconsider the relevance and significance of the natural environment, which is taken for granted in managerial contexts. Reflecting the importance of the natural environment, the robustness of the current literature, and the potential for the future, we propose a new subdiscipline of sport management called sport ecology. Thus, we proposed, in this paper, a definition for sport ecology, (re)introduced key concepts related to this subdiscipline (e.g., sustainability, green), and highlighted the leading research that serves as the foundation for sport ecology. We concluded with a discussion on the ways sport ecology can inform—and be informed by—other subdisciplines of sport management.

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“…an economic framework based on demand that has been used to enrich theoretical discussions of sports and the environment in previous studies (Watanabe et al, 2019). To address the relative lack of actual, real-time environmental measures to investigate sports and environmental factors, this study incorporates air quality, temperature and precipitation data documented by the Korea Meteorological Administration.…”

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The impact of environmental barriers on attendance of outdoor and indoor professional sports: the case of the South Korean soccer, baseball and basketball leagues

Lee

Lim

2022

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PurposeThis study sought to determine if environmental barriers (i.e. air pollution, temperature and precipitation) affect outdoor (i.e. soccer and baseball) and indoor (i.e. basketball) professional sport attendance in South Korea.Design/methodology/approachBy including actual air quality, temperature and precipitation data collected from each place where the sporting events take place, this study conducted a regression analysis to examine factors that influenced outdoor and indoor sport attendance.FindingsIn outdoor sports, the estimated results suggested that soccer and baseball attendance were not affected by air pollution. Indoor sport consumers did not change their consumption behaviors in attending sports despite the presence of air pollution. In addition, there was mixed evidence on the effect of weather-related variables on attendance. Average temperature had a positive effect on baseball (outdoor) and basketball (indoor) sport attendance, indicating that the warmer the temperature, the more likely those fans were to attend the games. Average precipitation was negatively associated with outdoor (soccer) sport spectators.Originality/valueThe present study contributes to the sport environment literature by examining the impact of environmental barriers on spectators' behaviors in the context of outdoor and indoor professional sports.

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Air Pollution and Attendance in the Chinese Super League: Environmental Economics and the Demand for Sport

Cited by 30 publications

References 56 publications

Stadium Attendance Demand Research: A Scoping Review

Stadium Attendance Demand Research: A Scoping Review

Sport Ecology: Conceptualizing an Emerging Subdiscipline Within Sport Management

The impact of environmental barriers on attendance of outdoor and indoor professional sports: the case of the South Korean soccer, baseball and basketball leagues

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