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Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition

Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012

We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … Competitive Media Reporting. Exposure to fast-food restaurant advertising on television causes statistically significant increases …

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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying seconds" of international football matches

Ours, Jan C. van; Tuijl, Martin A. van - 2010

national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national …

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Effects of a red card on goal-scoring in World Cup football matches

Cerveny, Jakub; Ours, Jan C. van; Tuijl, Martin A. van - 2016

We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments from 1998 to 2014. We use a hazard rate framework in which the effect of a red card is modeled as a shift in the goal-scoring rate. A red card may harm the team that receives a...

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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019

Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...

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An economic model of the evolution of the gender performance ratio in individual sports

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2010

This paper shows that the gender world record ratio in four disciplines, i.e. marathon, triple jump, pole vault and 800 meters, follows an S-shape over time. It is argued that this pattern is initiated by a sudden drop in the social barrier for women to participate in these disciplines. This...

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Fatigue and team performance in soccer : evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship

Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013

We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of players and the optimal organization of national and international championships, empirical evidence is lacking. We use data on all the matches played by national teams in all the...

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Is soccer good for you? : the motivational impact of big sporting events on the unemployed

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014

We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...

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Labor market discrimination and capital investment : the effects of fan discrimination on stadium investment

Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Humphreys, Brad R. - 2009

We investigate the possibility that labor market discrimination affects economic outcomes in the complementary capital market. Previous research contains ample theoretical justification, and empirical evidence, that discrimination affects wages and employment in labor markets. However, the...

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Family violence and football : the effect of unexpected emotional cues on violent behavior

Card, David E.; Dahl, Gordon B. - 2010

We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a rationally expected reference point. Our empirical...

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Seemingly irrelevant events affect economic perceptions and expectations : the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

"Prominent economic theories have emphasized the role of commonly held perceptions and expectations for determining macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. We provide direct...

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