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reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team … performance whereas teams who fire their Head Coach experience small but statistically significant improvements in team …
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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 …
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performance of his peers, but decreases with the quality of the team's pitching. Furthermore, a pitcher's performance increases … with the pitching quality of his teammates, but is unaffected by the batting output of the team. These results are …
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interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave …
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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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This paper examines the relationship between customer preferences and ethnic team composition in German professional … soccer. Ethnic team composition is measured using facial recognition techniques, player names, and nationality. The study ….6 percentage points. When examining the impacts of these changes in ethnic team composition on team productivity and economic …
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We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …
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population, where more than 50,000 European citizens were asked questions about their current and past life satisfaction. We …
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Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
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The literature on happiness shows that there are many factors that influence a person s happiness. Extending previous studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person s happiness. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the...
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