In this paper I explore the flexibility of the work week in the United States, using the FIFA Soccer World Cup as a …

We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search …

We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from …

on the universe of professional soccer players in Germany over the period 1999-2011. Combining this data with hourly …

judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the …

competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second …. Collecting data for the entire history of six major soccer competitions we cannot replicate their result. Teams kicking first win …

We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of … on all the matches played by national teams in all the tournaments of the FIFA Soccer World Cup (from 1930 to 2010) and …