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The Economics of Discrimination : Evidence from Basketball
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009
discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … black NBA players in the 1980s. However, there appears to be less evidence of racial compensation, hiring and retention … on customer discrimination in the NBA: in the 1980s, there was abundant evidence of fan preference for white players …
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Productivity Under Large Pay Increases : Evidence from Professional Baseball
Papps, Kerry L. - 2010
The establishment of the free agency system in the 1970s resulted in large salary increases among professional baseball players. Historical data show that players have tended to perform better at early stages of their careers since free agency was introduced. Under the current salary bargaining...
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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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Gender Differences in Risk-Taking : Evidence from Professional Basketball
Böheim, René - 2016
We analyze gender differences in risk-taking in high-pressure situations. Using novel data from professional athletes … (NBA and WNBA), we find that male teams increase their risk-taking towards the end of matches when a successful risky …
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Cross-Assignment Discrimination in Pay : A Test Case of Major League Baseball
Bodvarsson, Orn B. - 2011
The traditional Becker/Arrow style model of discrimination depicts majority and minority and workers as perfectly substitutable inputs, implying that all workers have the same job assignment. The model is only appropriate for determining whether pay differences between, for example, whites and...
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Productivity, Wages, and Marriage : The Case of Major League Baseball
Cornaglia, Francesca - 2011
Using a sample of professional baseball players from 1871-2007, this paper aims at analyzing a longstanding empirical observation that married men earn significantly more than their single counterparts holding all else equal (the "marriage premium"). Baseball is a unique case study because it...
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Are Sunk Costs Irrelevant? Evidence from Playing Time in the National Basketball Association
Leeds, Daniel - 2013
The relevance of sunk costs in decision making is one of the major sources of disagreement between neoclassical economists and behavioral economists. We test the importance of sunk costs by examining the role of a player's draft position on his playing time in the National Basketball...
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Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments : Evidence from the NBA
Grund, Christian - 2010
We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season …
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Interactions between Workers and the Technology of Production : Evidence from Professional Baseball
Gould, Eric D.; Winter, Eyal - 2021
This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact with each other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their co-workers based on income maximization considerations, rather than relying on behavioral...
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The Superstar Quest : Does Youth Talent Predict Professional Success for Female and Male Tennis Players?
Grove, Wayne A. - 2014
We estimate the relationship between international youth and professional tennis rankings. We find no difference between the predictiveness of rankings from age 14 & Under versus age 16 & Under competitions. The most persistent predictor of professional success is beating older top ranked...
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