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Is soccer good for you? : the motivational impact of big sporting events on the unemployed
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...
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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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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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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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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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Seemingly irrelevant events affect economic perceptions and expectations : the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
"Prominent economic theories have emphasized the role of commonly held perceptions and expectations for determining macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. We provide direct...
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