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Athletes greatly benefit from participation in sports at the college and secondary level

Fakhoury, Anthony; Fakih, Ali - 2021

participation in sports for student athletes. Anecdotes about the exploitation of student athletes were cited in the opinion. This …

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The value of leisure synchronization

Georges-Kot, Simon; Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2022

This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use the fact that the number and timing of paid vacation...

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Beliefs that entertain

Gandhi, Ashvin; Giuliano, Paola; Guan, Eric; Keefer, … - 2024

surprise, and flow theory from psychology. We then leverage our estimated model and an evolutionary algorithm to find the …

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Rank-order tournaments, probability of winning and investing in talent : evidence from Champions League qualifying rules

Green, Colin P.; Lozano, Fernando; Simmons, Robert - 2015

We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...

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Gender and competition : evidence from jumping competitions

Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - 2013

We analyze if female athletes differ from male athletes in their competitive behavior, using data from high jump and pole vault competitions. We estimate if female athletes use risky strategies as often as male athletes and whether or not their returns to risky strategies differ. Returns to...

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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 …. -- Occupational choice ; sports and games …

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Fatigue and team performance in soccer : evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship

Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013

We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of players and the optimal organization of national and international championships, empirical evidence is lacking. We use data on all the matches played by national teams in all the...

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The effect of sport in online dating: evidence from causal machine learning

Boller, Daniel; Lechner, Michael; Okasa, Gabriel - 2021

-demographic characteristics to explain human mating in online dating environments, neglecting the commonly recognized relevance of sport. This … research investigates the effect of sport activity on human mating by exploiting a unique data set from an online dating … platform. Thereby, we leverage recent advances in the causal machine learning literature to estimate the causal effect of sport …

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Are workers in the cultural industries paid differently?

Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. (contributor) - 2007

This paper aims to explore wage differentials between employees in three sub-industries of the cultural industries compared with the main (1-digit level) industry to which they belong. We use data from the Wage Indicator Questionnaire 2001/2002, which includes information on 12,757 employees in...

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War, migration and the origins of the Thai sex industry

Brodeur, Abel; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Zylberberg, Yanos - 2017

This paper analyzes the determinants behind the spatial distribution of the sex industry in Thailand. We relate the development of the sex industry to an early temporary demand shock, i.e., U.S. military presence during the Vietnam War. Comparing the surroundings of Thai military bases used by...

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