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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063244
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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015
' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared … to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510696
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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013 - This version: October 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199753
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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201710
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Sports heroes and mass sports participation : the (double) paradox of the "German tennis boom"
Feddersen, Arne; Jacobsen, Sven; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
participation in that sport. This study is the first to analyse the impact of sports heroes on the membership figures of the … corresponding sports association by means of an econometric analysis. We do so by evaluating the so-called "Boris Becker effect" by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948737
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Distance matters! : evidence from professional team sports
Oberhofer, Harald; Philippovich, Tassilo; Winner, Hannes - 2008
This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733228
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Consumer perceptions matter : a case study of an anomaly in English football
Reade, J. James; Ours, Jan C. van - 2024
In 1983 England's fifth-tier football competition introduced a two-points-for-ahome-win and three-points-for-an-away-win reward system. This system was abolished after three seasons. The anomalous point system may have been introduced to reduce home advantage but the reasons are not fully clear...
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Long-run labour market effects of individual sports activities
Lechner, Michael - 2008 - This version: 17 June 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market … their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632606
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market … their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217213
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Simulation in Sport Finance
Drayer, Joris - 2014
Simulations have long been used in business schools to give students experience making real-world decisions in a relatively low-risk environment. The Oakland A'S Baseball Business Business Simulator takes a traditional business simulation and applies it to the sport industry where sales of...
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