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Running the risk of an injury in the NFL : short-run and career consequences
Keefer, Quinn; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2019
Similar to other workers in industrial settings NFL running backs can choose to provide additional work effort with possible negative health consequences. We find that the most informative measure for running backs is yards gained after contact, which not only increases total rushing yards but...
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The superstar quest : does youth talent predict professional success for female and male tennis players?
Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael - 2014
We estimate the relationship between international youth and professional tennis rankings. We find no difference between the predictiveness of rankings from age 14 & Under versus age 16 & Under competitions. The most persistent predictor of professional success is beating older top ranked...
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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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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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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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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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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 …
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Do high school sports build or reveal character?
Ransom, Michael R.; Ransom, Tyler - 2017
We examine the extent to which participation in high school athletics has beneficial effects on future education, labor market, and health outcomes. Due to the absence of plausible instruments in observational data, we use recently developed methods that relate selection on observables with...
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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...
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The Italian job : match rigging, career concerns and media concentration in Serie A
Boeri, Tito (contributor); Severgnini, Battista (contributor) - 2008
This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the determinants of match rigging and use this information in...
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