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Migrating Football Players, Transfer Fees and Migration Controls

Verbon, Harrie - 2021

Since the famous Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice in 1995 transfer fees for football players after moving to another club have become suspect as they are considered as an obstacle to the free movement of workers. However, in an unrestricted market free migration from football...

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A Social Heuristics Hypothesis for the Stag Hunt : Fast- and Slow-Thinking Hunters in the Lab

Belloc, Marianna - 2018

interactions, players who make their choices fast and intuitively, relying on social heuristics, choose stag more often than other … Heuristics Hypothesis applied to stag hunt interactions …

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Cooperating, Fast and Slow : Testing the Social Heuristics Hypothesis

Stromland, Eirik - 2016

Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper …

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Sports and Child Development

Felfe, Andrea Christina - 2011

understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra …

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Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories : Socioeconomic Status and Diets

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...

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The IOC's Midas Touch : Summer Olympics and City Growth

Nitsch, Volker - 2013

Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...

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Nineteenth Century Black and Mulatto Physical Activity, Calories, and Life Expectancy

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

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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 …

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Beyond the Classroom : Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2021

expansion in female sports participation by using variation in the level of boys’ athletic participation across states before … changes between pre- and post-cohorts reveals that a 10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation … participation. Furthermore, greater opportunities to play sports leads to greater female participation in previously male …

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Do Surveillance Cameras Affect Unruly Behavior? A Close Look at Grandstands

Priks, Mikael - 2021

This paper studies how surveillance cameras affect unruly spectator behaviour in the highest Swedish soccer league. Swedish stadiums introduced surveillance cameras at different points in time during the years 2000 and 2001. I exploit the exogenous variation that occurred due to differences...

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