Exploring causal relationship between Major League Baseball games and crime: a synthetic control analysis

Pyun, Hyunwoong

doi:10.1007/s00181-018-1440-9

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“…Results of this study suggest that after the exit of the Lions, larcenies experienced a significant reduction. In a more recent study, Pyun (2018) studies the move of the Washington Nationals to Washington, DC, in 2005. Using a triple difference-in-difference approach, Pyun (2018) uncovers a significant increase in assaults as a result of the move.…”

Section: Prior Quantitative Research On Sports and Crime Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Major League Baseball and Crime: Opportunity, Spatial Patterns, and Team Rivalry at St. Louis Cardinal Games

Mares

Blackburn²

2019

Journal of Sports Economics

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Hosting professional sports teams is often seen as a financial benefit for cities. In the following analysis, we provide evidence that sports teams also carry costs. The analysis, the first examining a Major League Baseball team, finds significant increases in a variety of crimes during home game days of the St. Louis Cardinals. Adjusting for attendance and game length, this study finds that larcenies, motor vehicle thefts, minor assaults, disorderly conduct, and destruction of property increase in volume during game days. Increases concentrate especially around the immediate stadium area, but some are also observable in citywide levels of crime. Additionally, this study examines differences between the time of day a game is played and games played against its historic rival, the Chicago Cubs.

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Section: Prior Quantitative Research On Sports and Crime Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Major League Baseball and Crime: Opportunity, Spatial Patterns, and Team Rivalry at St. Louis Cardinal Games

Mares

Blackburn²

2019

Journal of Sports Economics

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“…Professional sports teams generate other negative urban externalities. Humphreys and Pyun () investigate the causal impact of MLB games on traffic congestion using urban mobility data from 25 cities home to professional baseball teams from 1990 to 2014. They use an instrumental variables approach where team success explains team attendance in an econometric model of the determination of urban vehicle miles traveled (VMT).…”

Section: Evidence On Generation Of Tangible Economic Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Both explain these results as reflecting the impact of large numbers of fans concentrated in and around facilities on game days on the local propensity to commit crimes. Pyun (2018) used another approach, exploiting the move of a new professional baseball team into Washington, DC, using a synthetic control approach. Pyun (2018) used monthly UCR data from Washington, DC and other cities with MLB teams and exploited variation in the number of MLB games played each month over 2000 to 2009 (the team arrived in 2004) to identify the effect of games on local crime.…”

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“…Pyun () used another approach, exploiting the move of a new professional baseball team into Washington, DC, using a synthetic control approach. Pyun () used monthly UCR data from Washington, DC and other cities with MLB teams and exploited variation in the number of MLB games played each month over 2000 to 2009 (the team arrived in 2004) to identify the effect of games on local crime. The control group was a weighted average of observations from other cities with MLB teams over the sample period with weights determined optimally to match economic conditions in Washington, DC during the pre‐treatment period.…”

Section: Evidence On Generation Of Tangible Economic Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The control group was a weighted average of observations from other cities with MLB teams over the sample period with weights determined optimally to match economic conditions in Washington, DC during the pre‐treatment period. Pyun () found that assaults increased by 7 percent in Washington after the team arrived.…”

Section: Evidence On Generation Of Tangible Economic Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring causal relationship between Major League Baseball games and crime: a synthetic control analysis

Cited by 33 publications

References 28 publications

Major League Baseball and Crime: Opportunity, Spatial Patterns, and Team Rivalry at St. Louis Cardinal Games

Major League Baseball and Crime: Opportunity, Spatial Patterns, and Team Rivalry at St. Louis Cardinal Games

Should the Construction of New Professional Sports Facilities Be Subsidized?

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