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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

his playing time in the National Basketball Association. Specifically, we ask whether players taken as "lottery picks" or …

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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. 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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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 … discrimination against black NBA coaches, and while male college basketball coaches outearn females, this gap is accounted for by … the result of employer discrimination. -- Discrimination ; race ; gender ; basketball …

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Racial discrimination among NBA referees

Price, Joseph (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2007

crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences …

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Risk taking behavior in tournaments : evidence from the NBA

Grund, Christian; Höcker, Jan; Zimmermann, Stefan - 2010

of points. We discuss possible explanations for these decision errors. -- Basketball ; NBA ; risk taking ; tournaments …

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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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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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Good girl, bad boy : corrupt behavior in professional tennis

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2015

This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being "on the bubble" of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong...

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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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