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The Nfl And Trump: Did Protesting Cause The Decline?, Jameson Osmond
The Nfl And Trump: Did Protesting Cause The Decline?, Jameson Osmond
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
This project is a study in econometric modeling of the effects of the protests of the national anthem in the NFL during the 2016-2017 seasons. The project is created to determine the accuracy or lack thereof of President Donald Trump's statement that the cause of the decline in viewership and ratings (and thus business) of NFL games was caused by protests that deterred US viewers.
Using viewership and rating data, along with various protest indexes created by collecting game-level protest data, an econometric model was constructed to allow for control over various endogenous and exogenous variables that surround NFL in-season …