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Sports and Child Development
Felfe, Christina - 2011
understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra …
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Gender Stereotyping in Sports
Marcén, Miriam - 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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Social Networks
de Martí, Joan - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153178
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Social Capital, Networks, and Economic Wellbeing
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2020
One definition of social capital is the "networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively". This definition of social capital highlights two key features. First, it refers to connections between people, shifting our...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139043
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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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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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Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices : Evidence from German Soccer
Feess, Eberhard; Gerfin, Michael; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2021
Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some basic qualitative properties of this literature, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework...
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Corporate Sports Activity and Work Morale : Evidence from a Japanese Automobile Maker
Sasaki, Masaru - 2013
This paper estimates the factors affecting the relationship between the wins and losses of corporate sports club teams … that corporate sports club teams' performance is an important factor influencing the work morale of older employees and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071286
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Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams : The Role of Social Ties
De Paola, Maria - 2016
We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a sample of undergraduate students are randomly assigned to either teams composed by friends or teams composed by individuals not linked by friendship relationships. Students...
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