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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League …

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What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League …

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What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League …

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Racial Position Segregation in Intercollegiate Football: Do Players become more Racially Segregated as they Transition from High School to College?

Pitts, Joshua; Yost, Daniel - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 40 (2013) 2, pp. 207-230

This study revisits the issue of racial position segregation or racial “stacking” in intercollegiate football …. Estimating a probit model, we examine the impact that a player’s race has on the probability of him changing positions when he … position segregation is widespread in high school football. The data also offers much information about which players are …

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Padding Required: Assessing the Economic Impact of the Super Bowl

Matheson, Victor; Baade, Robert - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2004

’s economy. The National Football League has used the promise of an economic windfall to convince skeptical cities that …

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Mega-Sporting Events in Developing Nations: Playing the Way to Prosperity?

Matheson, Victor; Baade, Robert - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2004

Supporters of mega-sporting events such as the World Cup and Olympics claim that these events attract hoards of wealthy visitors and lead to lasting economic benefits for the host regions. Developing countries have become increasingly vocal in demanding a share of the economic benefits of these...

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Have Public Finance Principles Been Shut Out in Financing New Sports Stadiums for the NFL in the United States?

Matheson, Victor; Baade, Robert - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2005

Over the past 15 years, new stadiums in the National Football League have been built at an unprecedented rate, and most …

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The Economic Consequences of Professional Sports Strikes and Lockouts: Revisited

Baumann, Robert; Matheson, Victor; Baade, Robert - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2006

Professional sports franchises have used the lure of economic riches as an incentive for cities to construct new stadiums and arenas at considerable public expense. An analysis of taxable sales in Florida cities demonstrates that none of the 6 new franchises or 8 new stadiums and arenas in the...

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NFL Governance and the Fate of the New Orleans Saints: Some Observations

Matheson, Victor; Baade, Robert - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2007

Prior to 2005, New Orleans had struggled to retain its NFL franchise. The Saints remained in the city, despite an outdated stadium and small media market, only through generous direct public subsidies to the team. Paradoxically, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in September 2005...

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Forecasting the Professional Team Sporting Events: Evidence from Euro 2000 and 2004 Football Tournaments

HALICIOGLU, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005

This study aims at predicting the most likely winners of international football tournaments. To this end, this paper …-of-season points from domestic football leagues to measure the degree of competitive balance and to use it as a comparative indicator … between the contesting countries in international football tournaments. The seasonal CV values computed from over ten seasons …

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