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Family Violence and Football : The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior

Card, David E. - 2009

using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …

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Professionals Do Not Play Minimax : Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League

Kovash, Kenneth; Levitt, Steven D. - 2021

pitch type in Major League Baseball and whether to run or pass in the National Football League. We observe more than three … million pitches in baseball and 125,000 play choices for football. We find systematic deviations from minimax play in both … data sets. Pitchers appear to throw too many fastballs; football teams pass less than they should. In both sports, there is …

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Favoritism Under Social Pressure

Garicano, Luis; Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio; Prendergast, … - 2021

This paper provides empirical evidence of favoritism by agents, where that favoritism is generated by social pressure. To do so, we explore the behavior of professional soccer referees. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra time at the end of a soccer game (called injury time), to...

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Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League

Massey, Cade - 2005

analyze the decision making of National Football League teams during their annual player draft. This is a domain in which …

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How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League

Levitt, Steven D. - 2003

The market for sports gambling is structured very differently than the typical financial market. In sports betting, bookmakers announce a price, after which adjustments are small and infrequent. As a consequence, bookmakers do not play the traditional role of market makers whose primary function...

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Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams

Juster, Thomas - 2014

This study investigates the professional soccer industry to ask whether the talent of an individual's co-workers helps explain differences in the rate of human capital accumulation on the job. Data tracking national soccer team performance and the professional leagues their members play for are...

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Who Wins the Olympic Games : Economic Development and Medal Totals

Bernard, Andrew B.; Busse, Meghan R. - 2021

This paper examines determinants of Olympic success at the country level. Does the U.S. win its fair share of Olympic medals? Why does China win 6% of the medals even though it has 1/5 of the world's population? We consider the role of population and economic development in determining medal...

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The Promise of Beijing : Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality

Chen, Yuyu - 2011

To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using officially reported air pollution index (API) from 2000 to 2009, we show that these measures improved the API of Beijing during and after the Games, but 60% of the effect faded away by...

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The Olympic Effect

Rose, Andrew - 2010

Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting quot;mega-eventsquot; such as the Olympic Games or the World Cup, since such activities have considerable cost and seem to yield few tangible benefits. These doubts are rarely shared by policy-makers and the population, who are...

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Lead Exposure Reduces Academic Performance : Intensity, Duration, and Nutrition Matter

Hollingsworth, Alex; Huang, Mike; Rudik, Ivan; Sanders, … - 2022

We leverage a natural experiment, where a large national automotive racing organization switched from leaded to unleaded fuel, to study how ambient lead exposure and nutrition impact learning in elementary school. This provides quasi-experimental evidence linking measured quantities of lead...

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