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Discrimination and in-group favoritism in a citywide trust experiment
Falk, Armin (contributor); Zehnder, Christian (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides field experimental evidence on the prevalence and determinants of discrimination and in-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential trust game, in which first movers can condition their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003590730
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Spillovers of prosocial motivation : evidence from an intervention study on blood donors
Bruhin, Adrian; Götte, Lorenz; Haenni, Simon; Jiang, … - 2014
Spillovers of prosocial motivation are crucial for the formation of social capital. They facilitate interactions among individuals and create social multipliers that amplify the effects of policy interventions. We conducted a large-scale intervention study among dyads of blood donors to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462695
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Too busy for school? : the effect of athletic participation on absenteeism
Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - 2014
While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403579
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Long-run labour market effects of individual sports activities
Lechner, Michael (contributor) - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726797
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The stairways to heaven : a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess
Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008
We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646733
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Work out or out of work : the labor market return to physical fitness and leisure sport activities
Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2010
given different information about their type and level of leisure sport being engaged in. Applications which signal sport …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933652
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Gender and self-selection into a competitive environment : are women more overconfident than men?
Nekby, Lena (contributor);  … - 2007
Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003595348
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The impact of participation in sports on educational attainment : new evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas (contributor);  … - 2007
Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and … positive. -- Allocation of time ; education ; human capital ; sport …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003703189
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Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a natural experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2012
Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an individual's perspective an attractive alternative to exerting positive effort. Yet, given its illegal and often immoral nature, sabotage is typically hidden, making it difficult to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530844
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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510696