Similar Search Results

No better moment to score a goal than just before half time? : a soccer myth statistically tested

Baert, Stijn; Amez, Simon - 2016

We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this end, rich data on 1,179 games played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League are analysed. In contrast to the myth, we find that, conditional on the goal difference...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484373

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063244

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510696

Measuring customer discrimination : evidence from the professional cricket league in India

Sur, Pramod Kumar; Sasaki, Masaru - 2018

. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798037

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530844

Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England

Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013

Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201710

Labor market effects of sports and exercise : evidence from Canadian panel data

Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239266

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403579

Top-down vs. bottom-up : the long-term impact of government ideology and personal experience on values

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013

sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a … extramural sports experience and age are equally strong predictors of individual attitudes and beliefs, especially in interaction …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721336

Which former professional football players become successful professional head coaches?

Balliauw, Matteo; Verheuge, Marco; Baert, Stijn - 2022

One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club’s first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805583