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Interactions between Workers and the Technology of Production : Evidence from Professional Baseball
Gould, Eric D.; Winter, Eyal - 2021
negative effect if they are substitutes. The theory is tested using panel data on the performance of baseball players from 1970 …
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Productivity Under Large Pay Increases : Evidence from Professional Baseball
Papps, Kerry L. - 2010
, consistent with efficiency wage theory …
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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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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 2007/2008 and measure risk taking by the fraction of three-point shots. Current heterogeneity of teams is taken into account by intermediate results. It turns out that indeed...
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Business, Bankruptcy, and Beliefs : The Financial Demise of NBA Stars
Henry, Ruby - 2013
The financial troubles of professional athletes are an ongoing topic of intrigue. In general, the zealousness brought to private equity schemes are a common factor in observed financial insolvency. Considering the behavioral attribute of self-confidence I propose a simple model which explains...
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Are Sunk Costs Irrelevant? Evidence from Playing Time in the National Basketball Association
Leeds, Daniel - 2013
sophisticated methodology – regression discontinuity – to test for whether teams treat lottery picks or first-round picks …
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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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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 …. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i ….e., cricket. Relying on Playing XI vote in the Indian Premier League (IPL), we analyze whether supporters have a different …
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Gender Differences in Reaction to Psychological Pressure : Evidence from Tennis Players
De Paola, Maria - 2015
Using data on about 35,000 professional tennis matches, we test whether men and women react differently to psychological pressure arising from the outcomes of sequential stages in a competition. We show that, with respect to males, females losing the first set are much more likely to play poorly...
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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 strategy could secure winning the match. Female teams, in...
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