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Spillovers and substitutability in production
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex - 2019
workers can raise overall output unilaterally. Data from major league baseball support these predictions. They show that the …
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Are voluntary agreements better? : evidence from baseball arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014
- subsequent player performance and the durability of club-player relationship. Major League Baseball provides a compelling setting …
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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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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 …
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The economics of discrimination : evidence from basketball
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009
This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...
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Racial discrimination among NBA referees
Price, Joseph (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2007
"The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in repeated interactions in a high-pressure setting with referees making the type of split-second decisions that might allow implicit racial biases to manifest themselves. Moreover,...
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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 2007/2008 and measure risk taking by the fraction of three-point shots. Current heterogeneity of teams is taken into account by intermediate results. It turns out that indeed...
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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 …"). Baseball is a unique case study because it has a long history of statistics collection and numerous direct measurements of … productivity. Our results show that the marriage premium also holds for baseball players, where married players earn up to 16 …
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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 to private equity schemes are a common factor in observed financial insolvency. Considering the behavioral attribute of self-confidence I propose a simple model which explains...
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Are sunk costs irrelevant? : evidence from playing time in the National Basketball Association
Leeds, Daniel; Leeds, Michael A.; Motomura, Akira - 2013
The relevance of sunk costs in decision making is one of the major sources of disagreement between neoclassical economists and behavioral economists. We test the importance of sunk costs by examining the role of a player's draft position on his playing time in the National Basketball...
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