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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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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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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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A Large-Scale Field Experiment to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising

Coviello, Lorenzo - 2017

Companies spend billions of dollars online for paid links to branded search terms. Measuring the effectiveness of this marketing spending is hard. Blake, Nosko and Tadelis (2015) ran an experiment with eBay, showing that when the company suspended paid search, most of the traffic still ended up...

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The Efficacy of Political Advertising : A Voter Participation Field Experiment with Multiple Robo Calls and Controls for Selection Effects

Kling, Daniel - 2016

We document the effectiveness of robo calls for increasing voter participation despite most published research finding little or no effect of automated calls. We establish this finding in a large field experiment in a targeted, partisan get-out-the-vote campaign. Our experimental design includes...

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Net Neutrality and Internet Fragmentation : The Role of Online Advertising

D'Annunzio, Anna - 2015

We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers' attention to advertisers. Under Net Neutrality, a...

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Push-Me Pull-You : Comparative Advertising in the OTC Analgesics Industry

Anderson, Simon P. - 2015

We derive equilibrium incentives to use comparative advertising that pushes up own brand perception and pulls down the brand image of targeted rivals. Data on content and spending for all TV advertisements in OTC analgesics enable us to construct matrices of dollar rival targeting and estimate...

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