Inside the NBA Bubble: How Black Players Performed Better without Fans
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Inside the NBA Bubble : How Black Players Performed Better without Fans. / Caselli, Mauro; Falco, Paolo; Somekh, Babak.
2022.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Inside the NBA Bubble
T2 - How Black Players Performed Better without Fans
AU - Caselli, Mauro
AU - Falco, Paolo
AU - Somekh, Babak
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In the NBA, predominantly Black players play in front of predominantly non-Black fans. Using the 'NBA bubble', a natural experiment induced by COVID-19, we show that the performance of Black players improved significantly with the absence of fans vis-à-vis White players. This is consistent with Black athletes being negatively affected by racist pressure from mostly non-Black audiences. We dispel several alternative hypotheses. Beyond hurting individual players, fans' behavior causes significant economic damage to the NBA by lowering the quality of the game.
AB - In the NBA, predominantly Black players play in front of predominantly non-Black fans. Using the 'NBA bubble', a natural experiment induced by COVID-19, we show that the performance of Black players improved significantly with the absence of fans vis-à-vis White players. This is consistent with Black athletes being negatively affected by racist pressure from mostly non-Black audiences. We dispel several alternative hypotheses. Beyond hurting individual players, fans' behavior causes significant economic damage to the NBA by lowering the quality of the game.
KW - discrimination
KW - harassment
KW - racism
KW - performance
KW - basketball
KW - NBA
KW - COVID-19
M3 - Working paper
BT - Inside the NBA Bubble
ER -
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