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Kaplow, Louis - 2008

Ever since Corlett and Hague (1953), it has been understood that it tends to be optimal on second-best grounds to (relatively) tax complements to leisure and subsidize substitutes because doing so helps to offset the distorting effect of taxation on labor supply. Yet in the context of...

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Cheap Thrills : the Price of Leisure and the Global Decline in Work Hours

Kopytov, Alexandr - 2020

The real price of recreation goods and services has fallen dramatically over the last century. At the same time, hours per worker have also been on a steady decline. As recreation goods make leisure time more enjoyable, we investigate if the fall in their price has contributed to the decline in...

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A Century of Work and Leisure

Ramey, Valerie A. - 2006

Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for the last 105 years. We also present empirical and...

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Less of a Luxury : The Rise of Recreation since 1888

Costa, Dora L. - 1997

I show that recreation has become much more egalitarian over the last hundred years by estimating recreational expenditure elasticities in 1888-1890, 1917-1919, 1935-1936, 1972-1973, and 1991. I find that expenditure elasticities have fallen from around two at the beginning of the century to...

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Judging Under Public Pressure

Cohen, Alma; Neeman, Zvika; Auferoth, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Individuals who engage in "judging" - that is, rendering a determination in a dispute or contest between two parties - might be influenced by public pressure to favor one of the parties. Many rules and arrangements seek to insulate such individuals from public pressure or to address the effects...

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It's Fourth Down and What Does the Bellman Equation Say? A Dynamic Programming Analysis of Football Strategy

Romer, David - 2002

This paper uses play-by-play accounts of virtually all regular season National Football League games for 1998-2000 to analyze teams' choices on fourth down between trying for a first down and kicking. Dynamic programming is used to estimate the values of possessing the ball at different points...

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The Olympic Effect

Rose, Andrew K. - 2009

Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting "mega-events" such as the Olympic Games or the World Cup, since such activities have considerable cost and seem to yield few tangible benefits. These doubts are rarely shared by policy-makers and the population, who are typically...

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Athletes Greatly Benefit from Participation in Sports at the College and Secondary Level

Heckman, James J.; Loughlin, Colleen P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

participation in sports for student athletes. Anecdotes about the exploitation of student athletes were cited in the opinion. This …

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Time Spent Exercising and Obesity : An Application of Lewbel’s Instrumental Variables Method

Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2020

This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when time use during a single day--rather than average daily time use over an extended period--is used as...

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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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