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Experimental effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during COVID-19

Bryson, Alex; Dolton, Peter J.; Reade, J. James; … - 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has induced worldwide natural experiments on the effects of crowds. We exploit one of these experiments currently taking place over several countries in almost identical settings: professional football matches played behind closed doors. We find large and statistically...

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Explaining the favorite-longshot bias : is it risk-love or misperceptions?

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...

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Gender differences in reaction to psychological pressure : evidence from tennis players

De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015

Using data on about 35,000 professional tennis matches, we test whether men and women react differently to psychological pressure arising from the outcomes of sequential stages in a competition. We show that, with respect to males, females losing the first set are much more likely to play poorly...

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Game, set, and match : do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2015

This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...

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Gender differences in risk-taking : evidence from professional basketball

Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2016

We analyze gender differences in risk-taking in high-pressure situations. Using novel data from professional athletes (NBA and WNBA), we find that male teams increase their risk-taking towards the end of matches when a successful risky strategy could secure winning the match. Female teams, in...

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Savings and prize-linked savings accounts

Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - 2012

Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially fragile households also have the highest lottery expenditures as a proportion of income. This combination suggests that Prize-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine...

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Girls' and boys' performance in competitions : what we can learn from a Korean quiz show

Booth, Alison L.; Lee, Jungmin - 2019

We compare the performance of high-ability adolescent girls and boys who participated in a a long-running Korean television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance - in favour of boys - across episodes of the quiz show. To investigate underlying mechanisms that might explain...

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Career lotto : labor supply in winner-take-all markets

Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael; Papps, Kerry L. - 2018

Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...

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Economic behavior under alcohol influence : an experiment on time, risk, and social preferences

Corazzini, Luca; Filippin, Antonio; Vanin, Paolo - 2014

alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design allows disentangling the pharmacological … effects of alcohol intoxication from those mediated by expectations, as we compare behaviors of three groups of subjects …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but …

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