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Blood Sports and Cherry Pie

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  • J. C. H. Jones
  • D. G. Ferguson
  • K. G. Stewart

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. The results are reported of empirically testing two hypotheses relating to violence in a professional team sport: one, that hockey fans have a taste for violence (bockey is a “blood sport”) so that, in general, game attendance and violence in the National Hockey League are positively related; and two, more specifically, that the more extreme degrees of violence are positively associated with American, not Canadian, attendance. The data are game by game data for the 1983/84 season, violence is measured by various categories of penalty minutes (minors, majors, misconducts), and the model is a system of two reduced form equations. The results confirm that there is a significant and positive relationship between aggregate measures of violence (total penalty minutes) and attendance for games played in both American and Canadian cities; and there is a significant positive relationship between the more extreme forms of violence (proxied by majors and misconducts) and attendance only in American cities

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  • J. C. H. Jones & D. G. Ferguson & K. G. Stewart, 1993. "Blood Sports and Cherry Pie," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(1), pages 63-78, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:52:y:1993:i:1:p:63-78
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1993.tb02742.x
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