Air pollution and attendance in the Chinese Super League (2019)
The authors explore the effect of air pollution (among other factors) on consumer behavior in the China’s most popular soccer league, the Chinese Super League (CSL). They conduct a regression analysis using air quality data and CSL match attendance from 2014–2016, and they find that air pollution has no significant effect on attendance. As the authors note, while this finding may yield an initial sense of relief from league and club management, it signals more troublesome con