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overcome these difficulties by studying European football (soccer) clubs during 1990-2020. Detailed microdata from this setting …
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Incentive schemes that reward participants based on their relative performance are often thought to be particularly risk-inducing. Using a novel, real-effort task experiment in the laboratory, we find that the relationship between incentives and risk-taking is more nuanced and depends critically...
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Workers respond to the output choices of their peers. What explains this well documented phenomenon of peer effects? Do workers value equity, fear punishment from equity-minded peers, or does output from peers teach them about employers' expectations? We test these alternative explanations in a...
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We examine student, teacher, and peer perceptions of effort, ability, performance, and self-confidence in Romania's highly tracked schools. We find that: (1) students just above a cutoff--tracked into high-achieving classes--have less favorable self-perceptions than those just below...
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win per season for a professional football team … pitch type in Major League Baseball and whether to run or pass in the National Football League. We observe more than three … million pitches in baseball and 125,000 play choices for football. We find systematic deviations from minimax play in both …
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the decision making of National Football League teams during their annual player draft. This is a domain in which …
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The theory of incomplete contracting is rival to that of complete contracting as a frame of reference to understand contractual relationships. Both approaches rest upon diametrically opposed postulates and lead to very different policy conclusions. From a theoretical viewpoint, scrutiny of the...
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shortening close games where the home team is ahead, and lengthening close games where the home team is behind. They show no such …
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This paper provides a study on conflicts of interest among college football coaches participating in the USA Today … individual coach ballots between 2005 and 2010, we find that coaches distort their rankings to reflect their own team … favorably and boost their own team's ranking more than two full positions. Coaches also rank teams they defeated more favorably …
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The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...
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