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The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design: Is there a Neeskens-Effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - CESifo - 2008
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181276
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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise : Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Lechner, Michael - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057258
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul M. - 2021
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/10013315710
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Do Economic Crises Lead Tourists to Closer Destinations? An Analysis of Italy's Regional Data
Cafiso, Gianluca; Cellini, Roberto; Cuccia, Tiziana - CESifo - 2015
This article investigates whether the distance between origin and destination has played an increased role in shaping Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism destinations, as a consequence of the economic crisis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011202961
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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - CESifo - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747213
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Selection in Tournaments: The Case of Chess Players
Linnemer, Laurent; Visser, Michael - CESifo - 2015
We consider a simple tournament model in which individuals auto-select into the contest on the basis of their commonly known strength levels, and privately observed strength-shocks (reflecting temporary deviations from observed levels). The model predicts that the participation rate should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122687
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Expectations as Reference Points: Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551016
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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877839
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - CESifo - 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/10010877937
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Homevoters vs. Leasevoters: A Spatial Analysis of Airport Effects
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Maennig, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2013
We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671574