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Measuring customer discrimination : evidence from the professional cricket league in India
Sur, Pramod Kumar; Sasaki, Masaru - 2018
Research in the field of customer discrimination has received relatively little attention even if the theory of discrimination suggests that customer discrimination may exist in the long run whereas employer and employee discrimination may not. This paper examines customer discrimination...
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Productivity, wages, and marriage : the case of major league baseball
Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - 2011
Using a sample of professional baseball players from 1871-2007, this paper aims at analyzing a longstanding empirical observation that married men earn significantly more than their single counterparts holding all else equal (the "marriage premium"). Baseball is a unique case study because it...
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The economics of discrimination : evidence from basketball
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009
discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … black NBA players in the 1980s. However, there appears to be less evidence of racial compensation, hiring and retention … on customer discrimination in the NBA: in the 1980s, there was abundant evidence of fan preference for white players …
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Business, bankruptcy, and beliefs : the financial demise of NBA stars
Henry, Ruby - 2013
The financial troubles of professional athletes are an ongoing topic of intrigue. In general, the zealousness brought … database of NBA players affords a singular opportunity to measure confidence directly from behavior, avoiding bias from self … high levels increase this probability. -- self-confidence ; bankruptcy ; athletes ; entrepreneurs influence …
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Productivity under large pay increases : evidence from professional baseball
Papps, Kerry L. - 2010
The establishment of the free agency system in the 1970s resulted in large salary increases among professional baseball players. Historical data show that players have tended to perform better at early stages of their careers since free agency was introduced. Under the current salary bargaining...
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Too busy for school? : the effect of athletic participation on absenteeism
Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - 2014
- truancy among active male athletes declines significantly, with the effects larger in earlier grades and for black and …
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Spillovers and substitutability in production
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex - 2019
Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...
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Strike three : umpires' demand for discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A.; Sulaeman, Johan; Yates, Michael C. - 2008
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other factors, strikes are more likely to be called if the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity....
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Risk taking behavior in tournaments : evidence from the NBA
Grund, Christian; Höcker, Jan; Zimmermann, Stefan - 2010
We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season … of points. We discuss possible explanations for these decision errors. -- Basketball ; NBA ; risk taking ; tournaments …
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Cross-assignment discrimination in pay : a test case of major league baseball
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Sessions, John G. - 2011
The traditional Becker/Arrow style model of discrimination depicts majority and minority and workers as perfectly substitutable inputs, implying that all workers have the same job assignment. The model is only appropriate for determining whether pay differences between, for example, whites and...
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