Migrants play a vital role in economic development, and city amenities play an important role in attracting migrants. This paper explores the role of one such amenity—major league sports stadiums—plays in intra-U.S. migration decisions. We use Internal Revenue Service tax-filing data and stadium construction data for major sports stadiums between 1991 and 2014 to create an unbalanced panel of migration flows between 439,386 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) pairs. Analyzing migration patterns over various time windows following the construction of new sports facilities, we find little evidence that new sports facility construction or the aggregate expenditures on new sports stadiums draw migrants between U.S. MSAs. We find weak evidence that suggests stadium construction acts as a deterrent to migration. Our primary conclusion is that spending on stadiums is not only ineffective in attracting migrants, but the opportunity cost associated with stadium construction likely reduces the ability of MSAs to attract migrants through the provision of other amenities or public goods.

移民在经济发展中发挥着至关重要的作用，而城市便利设施在吸引移民方面发挥着重要作用。本文探讨了这样一个便利设施——大联盟体育场馆——在美国内部移民决策中的作用。我们使用 1991 年至 2014 年间主要体育场馆的美国国税局报税数据和体育场馆建设数据，在 439,386 个大都会统计区 (MSA) 对之间创建了一个不平衡的移民流面板。分析新体育设施建设后不同时间窗口内的移民模式，我们发现几乎没有证据表明新体育设施建设或新体育场馆的总支出会吸引美国 MSA 之间的移民。我们发现微弱的证据表明体育场建设对移民起到了威慑作用。