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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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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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Experiences and Coping Strategies of College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Logel, Christine; Oreopoulos, Philip; Petronijevic, Uros - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

An emerging literature documents the many challenges faced by college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Little is known, however, about how students responded to the adversity. Focusing on two large Canadian universities, we provide some of the first evidence on the coping strategies...

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Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams

Ichniowski, Casey - 2014

explain differences in the rate of human capital accumulation on the job. Data tracking national soccer team performance and … individual has been a member of an elite team than when he has been a member of lower level teams. The conclusion is borne out by … a rich set of complementary data on: national team performance, player-level performance, performance of foreign players …

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Biased Memory and Perceptions of Self-Control

Sial, Afras Y.; Sydnor, Justin R.; Taubinsky, Dmitry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using data from a field experiment on exercise, we analyze the relationship between imperfect memory and people's awareness of their limited self-control. We find that people overestimate past gym attendance, and that larger overestimation of past attendance is associated with (i) more...

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Customer Capital

Gourio, Francois - 2011

Firms spend substantial resources on marketing and selling. Interpreting this as evidence of frictions in product markets, which require firms to spend resources on customer acquisition, this paper develops a search theoretic model of firm dynamics in frictional product markets. Introducing...

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Consumer Reviews and Regulation : Evidence from NYC Restaurants

Farronato, Chiara; Zervas, Georgios - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate the informativeness of hygiene signals in online reviews, and their effect on consumer choice and restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated restaurant inspections, we find that reviews are more...

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Family Violence and Football : The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior

Card, David - 2009

that upset losses by the home team (losses in games that the home team was predicted to win by more than 3 points) lead to … victories by the home team have (at most) a small dampening effect on family violence. We also find that unexpected losses in …

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Firm-level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases : Covid-19, SARS, and H1N1

Hassan, Tarek A. - 2020

Using tools described in our earlier work (Hassan et al., 2019, 2020), we develop text-based measures of the costs, benefits, and risks listed firms in the US and over 80 other countries associate with the spread of Covid-19 and other epidemic diseases. We identify which firms expect to gain or...

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The Promise and Pitfalls of Conflict Prediction : Evidence from Colombia and Indonesia

Bazzi, Samuel - 2019

Policymakers can take actions to prevent local conflict before it begins, if such violence can be accurately predicted. We examine the two countries with the richest available sub-national data: Colombia and Indonesia. We assemble two decades of fine-grained violence data by type, alongside...

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