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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...

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Twelve eyes see more than eight : referee bias and the introduction of additional assistant referees in soccer

Vertraeten, Olivier; Baert, Stijn - 2019

We are the first to investigate whether the introduction of additional assistant referees in the UEFA Europa League (in season 2009-2010) and the UEFA Champions League (in season 2010-2011) was associated with lower referee bias. To this end, we analyse a unique database with pre- and...

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Home advantage in European international soccer : which dimension of distance matters?

Damme, Nils van; Baert, Stijn - 2019

We investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of the) home and away teams: geographical distance, climatic differences, cultural distance, and disparities in economic prosperity. To this end, we analyse 2,012 recent matches...

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Player dismissal and full time results in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League

De Meyere, Arne; Vanruymbeke, Ward; Baert, Stijn - 2018

This study is the first to estimate the effects of the sending-off of a player on the full time results in international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. We find that when home teams receive a red card,...

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On the role of counterfactuals in inferring causal effects of treatments

Kluve, Jochen - 2001

Causal inference in the empirical sciences is based on counterfactuals. This paper presents the counterfactual account of causation in terms of Lewis's possible-world semantics, and reformulates the statistical potential outcome framework and its underlying assumptions using counterfactual...

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Ten do it better, do they?: An empirical analysis of an old football myth

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Radić, Dubravko (contributor) - 2006

In this paper we investigate how the expulsion of a player influences the outcome of a football match. Common sense implies a negative impact for the affected team. However, an old football myth suggests that such an expulsion might also be beneficial since it increases the team spirit as well...

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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system

Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016

The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...

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Income inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador : different reasons

Aristizábal-Ramirez, Maria; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2015

This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 … educational attainment to form part of one's own responsibility the Colombian income distribution appears more equal than Bolivia … Ecuador, and a mere 2.4 percent in Bolivia. Our findings show that the sources of income inequality can differ substantially …

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Two stories of wage dynamics in Latin America : different policies, different outcomes

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Carvajal-Osorio, Luis C. - 2018

This article explores the variation in the wage distributions of two Latin American countries, Bolivia and Colombia … suggest that Bolivia, which has implemented left-wing economic policies, has experienced a general increase in wages …

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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

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