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Attendance in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League was studied for the 2009 to 2010 season. This junior league, part of the Canadian Hockey League system, serves as a development league for teenage players who attempt to parlay their participation in this league into a professional career. Fan demand for this level of hockey is found to be sensitive to the success of the home team and to exhibit normal consumer responses to weekday and monthly effects with weekends being more popular and attendance increasing throughout the season toward the playoffs. On-ice factors such as scoring, a proxy for excitement, and fighting are not shown to have a significant effect on attendance. Keywords Attendance. Sports. Hockey. Demand. Violence, Introduction The economic study of sports, once thought to be confined to antitrust law and labor contracts, took on a much different context after the introduction of Sportometrics by Goff [...]

State lottery revenues are shown to increase during the week transfer payments are distributed. The timing of the increase in lottery purchases suggests a portion of the transfer payments is used to purchase lottery tickets. In addition to providing information on the timing of lottery purchases, this study finds sales of Pick 3 and Pick 4 tickets increase during the period, while sales of Pick 5 and Pick 6 games do not, suggesting a general preference for the relatively higher probability, smaller jackpot games for the group. Keywords Lottery. Transfer payments. Liquidity constraints. Permanent income hypothesis JEL D00 * D12 * D91 * H50 * H53 * 100 * 138, This paper uses weekly lottery sales data to demonstrate a link between the distribution of government transfer payments, such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (1) (welfare), social security, [...]