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Are voluntary agreements better? : evidence from baseball arbitration

Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014

This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed - subsequent player performance and the...

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Mens sana in corpore Sano! : the hiring premium for physical versus mental exercise in different occupations

Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2023

We investigate the impact of participation in physical and mental exercise activities on hirability. Besides by comparing both forms of exercising, we innovate against the existing literature by comparing their impact between different types of jobs, where other effects could be expected. To...

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Desperately seeking a Japanese Yokozuna

Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2023

traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo …

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Gender stereotyping in sports

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina; Sevilla, Almudena - 2020

sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport … Association, which provides information for every state on the total number of high school participants by gender in each sport … making sport choices in high school. We also identify parental time investments as being an important cultural …

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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...

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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019

Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...

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Productivity and health : alternative productivity estimates using physical activity

Akogun, Oladele; Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; … - 2017

This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares worker labor outcomes, such as labor supply and daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data,...

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Do high school sports build or reveal character?

Ransom, Michael R.; Ransom, Tyler - 2017

We examine the extent to which participation in high school athletics has beneficial effects on future education, labor market, and health outcomes. Due to the absence of plausible instruments in observational data, we use recently developed methods that relate selection on observables with...

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Does stimulating physical activity affect school performance?

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Jansen, Maria W. J.; Kann, Dave … - 2019

negative effect. Our results suggest that the commonly found positive effects of exercising or participating in sports on …

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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports

Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015

' 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 from more highly educated families, doing sports improves …

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