. Focusing on football (soccer), we built a novel dataset of national teams of European countries that have participated in the … between the genetic scores of every players'origins in the team. Genetic endowments for each player are recovered using a …

This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … universe of professional football matches played out in Germany's top three football leagues over the period 2011-2015. To … violent crimes on days with and without professional football matches while controlling for date heterogeneity, weather, and …

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state … the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards, with a significantly higher probability if his team is behind the …

This paper examines the relation between crowd support and home advantage in professional football in making use of a … football divisions during the 2019/2020 season. We find that there is a reduced home advantage in the first division, whereas … advantage and the heterogeneity across divisions are not sensitive to a variety of performance, location, and team covariates …

this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous … on coach dismissals in the German football league where the selection of players is indeed a key task of the coach …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …

in soccer data: players born early in the year dominate youth soccer, but players born late (but not too late) in the …