This paper analyses how the scoring systems actually and potentially used in a variety of sports and games affect the …

The issue of Competitive Balance is a central issue in the literature on the economics of professional sports. The … basic idea is that the managers of professional sports leagues must maintain a certain level of competitive balance in their …

We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There … to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour …-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …

génération Y en comparaison aux autres générations à l'égard d'une GSS d'articles de sport. Les résultats de cette étude font …

. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. Therefore, the analysis of its …

not simple to measure and, as a result, relatively few studies have dealt with this empirical question. We consider sports … waves of Add Health data to study how sports participation by schoolchildren translates into labour-market success. We … specifically test the hypotheses that participation in different types of sports at school leads to, ceteris paribus, very …

In this study we use the German Socio-Economic Panel to evaluate the impact of leisure sport participation on the … unemployment duration. The empirical literature on sport participation has focused on labour market outcomes and job quality while … the impact of this activity on job search has not been studied. However, sports participation fosters socialization which …

This research focuses on the role played by cultural norms in the long run persistence of gender inequalities. Cultural … norms about gender roles are considered to be endogenous and can generate gender inequality and low development traps …. Indeed, when the gender gap is internalized, it leads to inegalitarian views about gender roles. Due to these inegalitarian …

for women's empowerment. Available results of impact studies call for circumspection; microfinance can free women from … the disparities between men and women, but also among women themselves. …

period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …