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-off between spending more time in the NCAA and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL) by declaring for the draft …After three years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), collegiate football players face a trade …. We analyze the starting salaries and signing bonuses for 1,673 rookies in the NFL, who entered the league between 2001 …
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have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League …
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In this paper we investigate how the expulsion of a player influences the outcome of a football match. Common sense … implies a negative impact for the affected team. However, an old football myth suggests that such an expulsion might also be …
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important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six …
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We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …
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We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed effects, where we are exploiting the high...
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This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...
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This paper investigates to what extent the wealth accumulation of immigrants is explained by their degree of assimilation, defined as the immigrants' capacity to become more similar over time to the local people in terms of their norms, values, behaviours, and socioeconomic characteristics. The...
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This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...
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practices between schools. Tentative analyses also indicate that counselors reduce students' uncertainty about their own … individual preferences at least to the same extent as uncertainty about objective measures such as employment prospects. …
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