Customer-Based Discrimination in Major League Baseball?
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چکیده
We investigate the existence of customer-based discrimination in Major League Baseball using a direct measure of customer preference, allstar balloting. Unlike other measures used in the literature, such as trading-card prices, our data do not su er from hard to measure monetary in uences on preference. Using allstar votes from 1992 through 1996, and controlling for various player and team-speci c attributes, we nd no evidence of customerbased discrimination. Our results imply that non-monetary based evaluations of professional baseball fans are not in uenced by the race of the players in question.
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