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One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of … ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share …). However, if at least the majority of team members is ethnically diverse, then more ethnic diversity has a positive impact on …
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relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little … top team diversity is amplified in the London city-region. …
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literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …
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reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team … performance whereas teams who fire their Head Coach experience small but statistically significant improvements in team …
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implies a negative impact for the affected team. However, an old football myth suggests that such an expulsion might also be … beneficial since it increases the team spirit as well as the efforts of the affected team. We make use of a unique dataset …
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The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...
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difference at the advantage of the home team is 0.520 goals lower in case of a goal just before half time by this team. We show … that this finding relates to this team's lower probability of scoring a goal during the second half. …
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Causal inference in the empirical sciences is based on counterfactuals. This paper presents the counterfactual account of causation in terms of Lewis's possible-world semantics, and reformulates the statistical potential outcome framework and its underlying assumptions using counterfactual...
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We are the first to investigate whether the introduction of additional assistant referees in the UEFA Europa League (in season 2009-2010) and the UEFA Champions League (in season 2010-2011) was associated with lower referee bias. To this end, we analyse a unique database with pre- and...
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when the home team plays at a higher altitude, they benefit substantially more from their home advantage. Every 100 meters … of altitude difference is associated with an increase in expected probability to win the match, as the home team, by 1 …
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