this fact for economic equilibrium analysis. In particular, it examines how the ranking schemes applied by the distribution … technology affect the use of knowledge, and it then describes the characteristics of an optimal ranking scheme. The analysis is …

explain sports-related violence in the United States, but can be accommodated by social identity explanations of football …

. Specifically, the focus is on RePEc’s main author ranking, which aggregates 36 different rankings based on a range of criteria. The … paper first describes the logic behind the ranking and then presents some key descriptive statistics on the top 5% of … authors. Notably, the ranking is dominated by English-speaking authors, particularly those affiliated with institutions in the …

opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school … athletic participation in the United States and how sports offerings for boys and girls changed subsequent to the passage of … this legislation. Girls' sports participation rose dramatically both following the enactment of Title IX and subsequent to …

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also … vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are … with higher sports club membership rates in the wake of marginally promoted soccer teams. The populist momentum is however …