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Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments : What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan
Booth, Alison L. - 2016
-dominated circumstances affect women's racing performance. We control for individual fixed-effects plus a host of other factors affecting … performance (such as starting lane, fitness and weather conditions).Our estimates reveal that women's race-time is slower in mixed …
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Fatigue and Team Performance in Soccer : Evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the Uefa European Championship
Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013
the UEFA European Football Championship (from 1960 to 2012). We relate team performance (in terms of points gained and … international tournaments, there are no relevant effects of enjoying different days of rest on team performance. However, we find … goals scored and conceded) to the respective days of rests that teams have had after their previous match, controlling for …
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Writing Tips for Crafting Effective Economics Research Papers 2023-2024 Edition
Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
This paper aims to provide insights for those who value careful, precise communication to draft effective economics papers. It is designed to be a helpful and convenient guide, which is divided into well-defined, thought-provoking sections
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Biology and Gender in the Labor Market
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2016
Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews the emerging literature which sheds light on this question, considering research in four broad areas: i) behavioral endocrinology; ii) human genetics; iii) neuroeconomics; and...
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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 discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...
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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Dolan, Paul - 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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Measuring Customer Discrimination : Evidence from the Professional Cricket League in India
Sur, Pramod Kumar - 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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Social Pressure in the Stadiums : Do Agents Change Behavior Without Crowd Support?
Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2020
advantage emerges in various measures of performance (points, goals, shots, etc.), this advantage is almost halved when matches …, England, Italy and Portugal) for the last 10 championships and compare several outcomes (determined by players' performance …
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Experimental Effects of an Absent Crowd on Performances and Refereeing Decisions During Covid-19
Bryson, Alex - 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has induced worldwide natural experiments on the effects of crowds. We exploit one of these experiments currently taking place over several countries in almost identical settings: professional football matches played behind closed doors. We find large and statistically...
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Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean
Pastore, Francesco - 2020
countries. The study analyses the impact of women in apical positions within firms (top manager or owner) on firm performance …
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