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Brad R Humphreys1, Jane E Ruseski1
1Department of Economics, John Chambers College of Business and Economics, PO Box 6025, Morgantown WV 26506-6025, United States of America.
Abstract:
Emerging research documents the impact of poor air quality on employee performance in a number of settings, including sport. Unlike other settings, sports teams have limited ability to influence previously scheduled games, making air quality exogenous to unobservable factors affecting game outcomes. We link play-level data from National Football League (NFL) games to data from air quality monitoring stations located near NFL stadiums. Results using data from about 90,000 offensive plays in 900 NFL games indicate that yards gained per offensive play increase with PM2.5 concentration. Defensive players are relatively more affected by air quality than offensive players.
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