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Do oppositional identities reduce employment for ethnic minorities?

Battu, Harminder (contributor); Mwale, MacDonald (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2009

We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the presence of those they are socially tied to, even in settings where there are no externalities among workers due to either the production technology or the compensation scheme in...

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Social norms in networks

Ushchev, Philip; Zenou, Yves - 2019

Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a microfoundation of the linear-in-means model and investigate its properties. We show that...

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Social networks, gender norms and women's labor supply : experimental evidence using a job search platform

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari; … - 2022

Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was offered to a randomly selected group of married couples (non-network treatment)...

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Productivity, wages, and marriage : the case of major league baseball

Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - 2011

Using a sample of professional baseball players from 1871-2007, this paper aims at analyzing a longstanding empirical observation that married men earn significantly more than their single counterparts holding all else equal (the "marriage premium"). Baseball is a unique case study because it...

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Business, bankruptcy, and beliefs : the financial demise of NBA stars

Henry, Ruby - 2013

The financial troubles of professional athletes are an ongoing topic of intrigue. In general, the zealousness brought … high levels increase this probability. -- self-confidence ; bankruptcy ; athletes ; entrepreneurs influence …

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Productivity under large pay increases : evidence from professional baseball

Papps, Kerry L. - 2010

The establishment of the free agency system in the 1970s resulted in large salary increases among professional baseball players. Historical data show that players have tended to perform better at early stages of their careers since free agency was introduced. Under the current salary bargaining...

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The economics of discrimination : evidence from basketball

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009

This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...

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Do former college athletes earn more at work? : A nonparametric assessment

Henderson, Daniel J. (contributor); … - 2005

. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is … significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic participation is a significant determinant of wages. Additionally, by … using newly developed techniques in nonparametric regression, it shows that on average former college athletes earn a wage …

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Divergent : the time path of legacy and athlete admissions at Harvard

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2019

available seats. We examine how this increased competition has affected the admissions advantage that legacies and athletes (LA … admissions advantages for legacies and athletes. We develop a simple theoretical model of university admissions to frame our …

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