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Marcén, Miriam - 2020

sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport … Association, which provides information for every state on the total number of high school participants by gender in each sport … making sport choices in high school. We also identify parental time investments as being an important cultural …

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Gender and Competition : Evidence from Jumping Competitions

Böheim, René - 2013

We analyze if female athletes differ from male athletes in their competitive behavior, using data from high jump and pole vault competitions. We estimate if female athletes use risky strategies as often as male athletes and whether or not their returns to risky strategies differ. Returns to...

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The Economics of College Sports : Cartel Behavior vs. Amateurism

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2021

This paper studies intercollegiate athletics in the context of the theory of cartels. Some point to explicit attempts … white. The rents are typically spent on coaches' salaries, facilities, and nonrevenue sports. Although athletic departments …

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The Measurement of Racial Discrimination in Pay between Job Categories : Theory and Test

Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Sessions, John G. - 2021

and test it on data from Major League Baseball. A competitive firm with a Generalized Leontief production function fills …

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Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent : Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules

Green, Colin - 2015

We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...

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Player Dismissal and Full Time Results in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League

De Meyere, Arne - 2018

This study is the first to estimate the effects of the sending-off of a player on the full time results in international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. We find that when home teams receive a red card,...

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Interactions between Workers and the Technology of Production : Evidence from Professional Baseball

Gould, Eric D.; Winter, Eyal - 2021

negative effect if they are substitutes. The theory is tested using panel data on the performance of baseball players from 1970 …

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Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules

Bryan, Mark L. - 2014

Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily...

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Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics

Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022

Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...

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How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer

Dur, Robert A. J.; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022

A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together with the Norwegian Football Federation. The...

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