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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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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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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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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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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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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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Performance and risk taking under threat of elimination

Adams, Nathan R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2017

We revisit the incentive effects of elimination tournaments with a fresh approach to identification, the results of which strongly support that performance improves under the threat of elimination and does so, but only in part, due to increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify...

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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

This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending … given different information about their type and level of leisure sport being engaged in. Applications which signal sport … result is mainly driven by the return to sports as soccer and golf, and not at all by more fitness related sports as running …

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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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