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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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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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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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Performance and risk taking under threat of elimination

Adams, Nathan R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2017

We revisit the incentive effects of elimination tournaments with a fresh approach to identification, the results of which strongly support that performance improves under the threat of elimination and does so, but only in part, due to increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify...

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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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Diversity and social capital in the US : a tale of conflict, contact or total mistrust?

Belton, Willie James; Huq, Yameen; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2014

In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...

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The determinants of trust : evidence from rural South India

Hilger, Anne; Nordman, Christophe J. - 2020

Trust and participation in social networks are inherently interrelated. We make use of India's demonetization policy, an unexpected and unforeseeable exogenous variation, to causally identify the effect of social networks in determining trust. We use first-hand quantitative and qualitative data...

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Civility and trust in social media

Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018

Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...

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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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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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