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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...

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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker : the peer effect of Jose Canseco

Gould, Eric D. (contributor); Kaplan, Todd R. (contributor) - 2008

This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...

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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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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...

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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 …

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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.

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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The effect of non-cognitive traits on health behaviours in adolescence

Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, self-esteem and conscientiousness at age 15-16, on the incidence of health behaviours such...

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