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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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Does violent crime deter physical activity?

Janke, Katharina; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael - 2013

Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an … about personal safety co-move with police recorded violent crime. To identify the causal effect of recorded violent crime on … increase in crime - the 2011 England riots - to identify the causal impact of a large exogenous crime shock on physical …

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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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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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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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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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Too busy for school? : the effect of athletic participation on absenteeism

Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - 2014

While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...

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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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Do high school sports build or reveal character?

Ransom, Michael R.; Ransom, Tyler - 2017

We examine the extent to which participation in high school athletics has beneficial effects on future education, labor market, and health outcomes. Due to the absence of plausible instruments in observational data, we use recently developed methods that relate selection on observables with...

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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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