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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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The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field
Archsmith, James E.; Heyes, Anthony; Neidell, Matthew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent theoretical and empirical work characterizes attention as a limited resource that decision-makers strategically allocate. There has been less research on the dynamic interdependence of attention: how paying attention now may affect performance later. In this paper, we exploit...
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Professionals Do Not Play Minimax : Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League
Kovash, Kenneth - 2009
data sets. Pitchers appear to throw too many fastballs; football teams pass less than they should. In both sports, there is …
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Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets : The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets
Sweeting, Andrew - 2008
This paper analyzes the dynamics of prices in two online secondary markets for Major League Baseball tickets. Controlling for ticket quality, prices tend to decline significantly as a game approaches. The paper describes and tests alternative theoretical explanations for why this happens in...
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Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
Price, Joseph - 2007
The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in repeated interactions in a high-pressure setting with referees making the type of split-second decisions that might allow implicit racial biases to manifest themselves. Moreover, the...
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Who Wins the Olympic Games : Economic Development and Medal Totals
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2000
This paper examines determinants of Olympic success at the country level. Does the U.S. win its fair share of Olympic 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 population and economic development in determining medal...
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The Promise of Beijing : Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
Chen, Yuyu - 2011
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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Human Capital Reallocation Across Firms : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Shocks
Gilje, Erik P.; Taillard, Jerôme P.; Zeng, Linghang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study human capital reallocation following firm-specific idiosyncratic shocks. Theory offers diverging predictions as to whether human capital gets reallocated to its most productive use following these shocks. To empirically test these predictions, we focus on relegation battles in the...
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Hot Shots : An Analysis of the 'Hot Hand' in NBA Field Goal and Free Throw Shooting
Lantis, Robert M. - 2019
We investigate the hot hand hypothesis using detailed data on free throws and field goal attempts for the entire 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 NBA regular seasons. Free throws represent a more controlled setting, allowing a closer examination of the potential physiological mechanisms behind success in...
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Whoa, Nellie! Empirical Tests of College Football's Conventional Wisdom
Logan, Trevon D. - 2007
College football fans, coaches, and observers have adopted a set of beliefs about how college football poll voters behave. I document three pieces of conventional wisdom in college football regarding the timing of wins and losses, the value of playing strong opponents, and the value of winning...
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