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The impact of participation in sports on educational attainment: new evidence from Germany

Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …

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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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Risk taking behavior in tournaments: evidence from the NBA

Grund, Christian; Höcker, Jan; Zimmermann, Stefan - 2010

We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season 2007/2008 and measure risk taking by the fraction of three-point shots. Current heterogeneity of teams is taken into account by intermediate results. It turns out that indeed...

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Cross-assignment discrimination in pay: A test case of major league baseball

Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Sessions, John G. - 2011

The traditional Becker/Arrow style model of discrimination depicts majority and minority and workers as perfectly substitutable inputs, implying that all workers have the same job assignment. The model is only appropriate for determining whether pay differences between, for example, whites and...

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Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production: Evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009

Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - 2010

A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...

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Desperately Seeking a Japanese Yokozuna

Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2023

traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo …

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Mens Sana in Corpore Sano! The Hiring Premium for Physical versus Mental Exercise in Different Occupations

Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2023

We investigate the impact of participation in physical and mental exercise activities on hirability. Besides by comparing both forms of exercising, we innovate against the existing literature by comparing their impact between different types of jobs, where other effects could be expected. To...

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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration

Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014

This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed – subsequent player performance and the...

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Performance and Risk Taking under Threat of Elimination

Adams, Nathan R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2017

We revisit the incentive effects of elimination tournaments with a fresh approach to identification, the results of which strongly support that performance improves under the threat of elimination and does so, but only in part, due to increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify...

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Gender Stereotyping in Sports

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina; Sevilla, Almudena - 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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