Inside the NBA Bubble: how Black players performed better without fans

IF 6.1 2区经济学

Journal of Population Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI:10.1007/s00148-024-01021-y

Mauro Caselli, Paolo Falco, Babak Somekh

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Abstract

In the NBA, predominantly Black players play in front of predominantly non-Black fans. Using the “NBA Bubble”, a natural experiment induced by COVID-19, we show that the performance of Black players improved significantly with the absence of fans vis-à-vis White players. This is consistent with Black athletes being negatively affected by racial pressure from mostly non-Black audiences. We control for player, team, and game fixed effects, and dispel alternative mechanisms. Beyond hurting individual players, racial pressure causes significant economic damage to NBA teams by lowering the performance of top athletes and the quality of the game.

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走进 NBA 泡沫：黑人球员如何在没有球迷的情况下表现得更好

在 NBA 中，主要是黑人球员在主要是非黑人球迷面前比赛。通过 COVID-19 诱导的自然实验 "NBA 泡沫"，我们发现，与白人球员相比，黑人球员的表现在没有球迷的情况下有显著提高。这与黑人运动员受到主要来自非黑人观众的种族压力的负面影响是一致的。我们控制了球员、球队和比赛的固定效应，并消除了其他机制。除了对球员个人造成伤害外，种族压力还会降低顶尖运动员的表现和比赛质量，从而对 NBA 球队造成重大经济损失。

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Journal of Population Economics Multiple-

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9.60

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6.60%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Population Economics is an international quarterly that publishes original theoretical and applied research in all areas of population economics. Micro-level topics examine individual, household or family behavior, including household formation, marriage, divorce, fertility choices, education, labor supply, migration, health, risky behavior and aging. Macro-level investigations may address such issues as economic growth with exogenous or endogenous population evolution, population policy, savings and pensions, social security, housing, and health care. The journal also features research into economic approaches to human biology, the relationship between population dynamics and public choice, and the impact of population on the distribution of income and wealth. Lastly, readers will find papers dealing with policy issues and development problems that are relevant to population issues.The journal is published in collaboration with POP at UNU-MERIT, the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE).Officially cited as: J Popul Econ Factor (RePEc): 13.576 (July 2018) Rank 69 of 2102 journals listed in RePEc