Singleton, C;
Bryson, A;
Dolton, P;
Reade, J;
Schreyer, D;
(2022)
Economics lessons from sports during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In: Pedersen, Paul M, (ed.)
Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19.
(pp. 9-18).
Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK.
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Abstract
Sports can offer rare moments of clarity to social scientists within an otherwise complex real world. The competitive environments in sports provide laboratories to study human behavior, to test theories, and to observe the effects of policy. In this chapter, we take an editorial cue from a recent special issue of the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics: ‘Ask not what economics can do for sports – Ask what sports can do for economics’ (Bar-Eli et al., 2020). In this spirit, economists have been studying the impacts of COVID-19 on sports, and vice versa, addressing research questions that have important implications far beyond the fields of play. We briefly summarize these studies and give our views on where there are knowledge gaps that (sports) economists may try to answer next.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Economics lessons from sports during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| ISBN-13: | 978 1 80220 756 9 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4337/9781802207576.00008 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802207576.00008 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Natural experiments; Prediction markets; Referee bias; Social pressure; Sports economics; Sport events; Airborne viruses |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10141741 |
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