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Sex Discrimination in Non-wage Compensation: Pension and Health Insurance Participation

Robinson, Michael D. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 17 (1991) 4, pp. 463-468

In 1983, 81 percent of white male full-time workers participated in employer-supported health plans and 54 percent in employer-supported pension plans. White full-time females, in contrast, participated at the rates of 71 percent and 43 percent. This study measures the unexplained portion of...

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Compensation Discrimination for Defensive Players

Burnett, Nancy J.; Scyoc, Lee James Van - In: Journal of Sports Economics 16 (2015) 4, pp. 375-389

Keeferâ€™s recent article in the Journal of Sports Economics, â€œCompensation discrimination for defensive players …: applying quantile regression to the National Football League market for linebackers,â€ finds wage discrimination in the … discrimination, as rookies are captured sellers. However, we find no pattern of discrimination against Blacks. …

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Further Examination of Potential Discrimination Among MLB Umpires

Tainsky, Scott; Mills, Brian M.; Winfree, Jason A. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 16 (2015) 4, pp. 353-374

We address potential racial bias by Major League Baseball umpires with respect to ballâ€“strike calls. We offer a number of econometric specifications to test the robustness of the results, adding the role of implicit and explicit monitoring as well as pitch location. Our analysis shows...

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Response to Coyne et al

Hanssen, F. Andrew; Jr, James W. Meehan - In: Journal of Sports Economics 11 (2010) 2, pp. 232-235

The Coyne, Issacs, and Schwartz comment appears to rest on a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between a critique and an original work.

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Voter Bias in the Associated Press College Football Poll

Coleman, B. Jay; Gallo, Andres; Mason, Paul M.; … - In: Journal of Sports Economics 11 (2010) 4, pp. 397-417

The authors investigate multiple biases in the individual weekly ballots submitted by the 65 voters in the Associated Press college football poll in 2007. Using censored Tobit modeling, they find evidence of bias toward teams (a) from the voter's state, (b) in conferences represented in the...

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The Location of Pay Discrimination in the National Hockey League

Lavoie, Marc - In: Journal of Sports Economics 1 (2000) 4, pp. 401-411

Past studies have only uncovered a limited amount of evidence regarding salary discrimination in the National Hockey … evidence may be more a reflection of excessive aggregation than an absence of pay discrimination. In the present article, both … is that salary discrimination based on team location appears to be a weak but pervasive phenomenon, more surely so in …

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Race and Ethnicity Assessment in Baseball Card Markets

Fort, Rodney; Gill, Andrew - In: Journal of Sports Economics 1 (2000) 1, pp. 21-38

There is a growing literature investigating fan discrimination revealed in markets for sports memorabilia. Such …. The authors find that race/ethnicity matters and in a way is consistent with a model of statistical discrimination by … those baseball fans who trade in the card market. The discrimination is against Black and Hispanic hitters and Black …

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Has the NFL's Rooney Rule Efforts “Leveled the Field” for African American Head Coach Candidates?

Madden, Janice Fanning; Ruther, Matthew - In: Journal of Sports Economics 12 (2011) 2, pp. 127-142

Madden provides evidence that African American head coaches in the National Football League (NFL) significantly outperformed whites between 1990 and 2002. She concludes that this evidence is consistent with African Americans being required to be better to be hired as head coaches. In 2002, the...

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Own-Race Bias Among NBA Coaches

Schroffel, Jesse L.; Magee, Christopher S. P. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 13 (2012) 2, pp. 130-151

This article finds that National Basketball Association (NBA) coaches gave greater minutes per game to players of their own race during the 1996-2004 seasons after controlling for player quality using performance statistics and player fixed effects. The authors estimate that having the same race...

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Racial Integration of Coaching

Goff, Brian L.; Tollison, Robert D. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 10 (2009) 2, pp. 127-140

Using National Football League (NFL) data from 1987 to 2007, we examine the hiring of African American head coaches. Our results partly support an innovation explanation in that integration proceeded more rapidly in larger population centers. In contrast, we find only mixed and weak evidence...

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