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using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …
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Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting "mega-events" such as the Olympic Games or the World …
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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 …
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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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natural experiment offered by the presence of thousands of international soccer (football) players in the European …
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preferences for waiting times, travel times, and transfers. We study these tradeoffs by examining the world's largest bus rapid …
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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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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. The average race emitted more than 10 kilograms of lead -- a quantity similar to...
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We provide the first analysis of racial in-group bias in Type-I and Type-II errors. Using player-referee matched data from NBA games we show that there is no overall racial bias or in-group bias in foul calls made by referees. Similarly, there is no racial bias or in-group bias in Type-I errors...
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present in many "real world" settings mitigate judgment and decision-making biases. To investigate this question, we analyze … the decision making of National Football League teams during their annual player draft. This is a domain in which …
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