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Who Profits from Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports

Garthwaite, Craig - 2020

rents flow to women's sports and other men's sports and lead to increased spending on facilities, coaches' salaries, and … other athletic department personnel. Using complete roster data for every student-athlete playing sports at these schools in … collective bargaining agreements in professional sports leagues as a benchmark. We also discuss how our results help understand …

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Termination Risk and Agency Problems : Evidence from the NBA

Cohen, Alma - 2018

When organizational structures and contractual arrangements face agents with a significant risk of termination in the short term, such agents may under-invest in projects whose results would be realized only in the long term. We use NBA data to study how risk of termination in the short term...

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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

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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Strike Three : Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

Parsons, Christopher A. - 2008

We explore umpires' racial/ethnic preferences in the evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other factors, strikes are more likely to be called if the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only...

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Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets : The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets

Sweeting, Andrew - 2010

This paper analyzes the dynamics of prices in two online secondary markets for Major League Baseball tickets. Controlling for ticket quality, prices tend to decline significantly as a game approaches. The paper describes and tests alternative theoretical explanations for why this happens in...

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Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees

Price, Joseph - 2010

The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in repeated interactions in a high-pressure setting with referees making the type of split-second decisions that might allow implicit racial biases to manifest themselves. Moreover, the...

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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias

Pope, Devin G. - 2013

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

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Hot Shots : An Analysis of the ‘Hot Hand’ in NBA Field Goal and Free Throw Shooting

Lantis, Robert; Nesson, Erik - 2021

We investigate the hot hand hypothesis using detailed data on free throws and field goal attempts for the 2004-2005 through 2015-2016 NBA regular seasons. Free throws represent a more controlled setting, allowing a closer examination of the potential physiological mechanisms behind success in...

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One Size Does Not Fit All : Multiple Dimensions of Ability, College Attendance and Wages

Prada, Maria F. - 2014

We investigate the role of mechanical ability as another dimension that, jointly with cognitive and socio-emotional, affects schooling decisions and labor market outcomes. Using a Roy model with a factor structure and data from the NLSY79, we show that the labor market positively rewards...

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The Limits of Simple Implementation Intentions : Evidence from a Field Experiment on Making Plans to Exercise

Carrera, Mariana - 2018

Recent large-scale randomized experiments find that helping people form implementation intentions by asking when and where they plan to act increases one-time actions, such as vaccinations, preventative screenings and voting. We investigate the effect of a simple scalable planning intervention...

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