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American Idol : Should it Be a Singing Contest or a Popularity Contest?
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2021
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...
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Sports and Child Development
Felfe, Andrea Christina - 2011
understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra …
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Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories : Socioeconomic Status and Diets
Carson, Scott A. - 2014
Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...
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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise : Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Lechner, Michael - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …
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The IOC's Midas Touch : Summer Olympics and City Growth
Nitsch, Volker - 2013
Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul M. - 2021
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
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Do Surveillance Cameras Affect Unruly Behavior? A Close Look at Grandstands
Priks, Mikael - 2021
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...
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The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design: Is there a Neeskens-Effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - CESifo - 2008
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Implementation of Communication Equilibria by Correlated Cheap Talk : The Two-Player Case
Vida, Peter - 2011
We show that essentially every communication equilibrium of any finite Bayesian game with two players can be implemented as a strategic form correlated equilibrium of an extended game, in which before choosing actions as in the Bayesian game, the players engage in a possibly infinitely long (but...
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Ageing, Government Budgets, Retirement, and Growth
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín - 2011
We analyze the short and long run effects of demographic ageing - increased longevity and reduced fertility - on per-capita growth. The OLG model captures direct effects, working through adjustments in the savings rate, labor supply, and capital deepening, and indirect effects, working through...
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