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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity
den Bijgaart, Inge van; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...
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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school … athletic participation in the United States and how sports offerings for boys and girls changed subsequent to the passage of … this legislation. Girls' sports participation rose dramatically both following the enactment of Title IX and subsequent to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316661
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The End of Tourist Traps : A Natural Experiment on the Impact of Tripadvisor on Quality Upgrading
Donati, Dante - 2022
Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers’ behavior and firms’ incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080609
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A Beam of Light : Media, Tourism & Economic Development
Nocito, Samuel; Sartarelli, Marcello; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2021
Tourism accounts for around one tenth of global GDP. We analyze the impact of entertainment media in drawing tourists to filming locations (media multiplier ) and, in turn, the effect of tourism on local economic development (tourism multiplier ). To assess the media multiplier, we employ a...
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The penalty-duel and institutional design: is there a Neeskens-effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - 2008
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264282
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American idol: should it be a singing contest or a popularity contest?
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2007
In the very popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is narrowed to the top twenty-four contestants. It is only the votes of viewers that count. In the 2007 season of the show, one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264269
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Information, uncertainty, and subjective entitlements in bargaining
Karagözoğlu, Emin; Riedl, Arno - 2010
More often than not production processes are the joint endeavor of people having different abilities and productivities. Such production processes and the associated surplus production are often not fully transparent in the sense that the relative contributions of involved agents are blurred;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274419
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Hooliganism in the shadow of the 9/11 terrorist attack and the Tsunami: do police reduce group violence?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2006
This paper isolates the causal effect of policing on group violence, using unique panel data on self-reported crime by soccer and ice hockey hooligans. The problem of reverse causality from violence to policing is solved by two drastic reallocations of the Stockholm Supporter Police unit to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264047
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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2007
opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school … athletic participation in the United States and how sports offerings for boys and girls changed subsequent to the passage of … this legislation. Girls' sports participation rose dramatically both following the enactment of Title IX and subsequent to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264259
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Do surveillance cameras affect unruly behavior?: a close look at grandstands
Priks, Mikael - 2008
This paper studies how surveillance cameras affect unruly spectator behaviour in the highest Swedish soccer league. Swedish stadiums introduced surveillance cameras at different points in time during the years 2000 and 2001. I exploit the exogenous variation that occurred due to differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264354