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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 …
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Cross-Assignment Discrimination in Pay : A Test Case of Major League Baseball
Bodvarsson, Orn B. - 2011
assignment discrimination developed by Bodvarsson and Sessions (2011) using data on Major League Baseball hitters and pitchers …
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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 …"). Baseball is a unique case study because it has a long history of statistics collection and numerous direct measurements of … productivity. Our results show that the marriage premium also holds for baseball players, where married players earn up to 16 …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Human Capital and Career Success : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Frederiksen, Anders - 2011
Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...
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