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Gambling habits and probability judgements in a Bayesian task environment

Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023

information sources. Exploratory analysis, however, revealed interesting effects related to self-reported gambling frequency …-reported gambling frequency was stronger for females. Decision modeling found a decreased weight placed on new evidence (over base rate … frequency of gambling to worse performance in the critical probability assessment skills that should benefit gambling success (i …

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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

This paper contributes to the literature of gender differences in academic attainment by putting together several sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport choices of boys and girls during high school. Using data...

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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

Using data on wrestlers and tournaments since the early 1970s, we study promotion practices in Sumo, a Japanese traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo were treated less favorably than Japanese born...

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Money and mental wellbeing : a longitudinal study of medium-sized lottery wins

Gardner, Jonathan (contributor); … - 2006

One of the famous questions in social science is whether money makes people happy. We offer new evidence by using longitudinal data on a random sample of Britons who receive medium-sized lottery wins of between Đ1000 and Đ120,000 (that is, up to approximately U.S. $200,000). When compared to...

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Competing approaches to forecasting elections : economic models, opinion polling and prediction markets

Leigh, Andrew (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006

We review the efficacy of three approaches to forecasting elections: econometric models that project outcomes on the basis of the state of the economy; public opinion polls; and election betting (prediction markets). We assess the efficacy of each in light of the 2004 Australian election. This...

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Winning big but feeling no better? : the effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health

Apouey, Bénédicte; Clark, Andrew E. - 2010

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect...

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Explaining the favorite-longshot bias : is it risk-love or misperceptions?

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...

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Gambling and the use of credit : an individual and household level analysis

Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andrew P.; McHardy, Jolian P.; … - 2010

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …

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