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Felfe, Christina - 2011

Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children's skill...

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Gender Stereotyping in Sports

Marcén, Miriam - 2020

This paper contributes to the literature of gender differences in academic attainment by putting together several sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport choices of boys and girls during high school. Using data...

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Does Compliance with Financial Fair Play Rules Improve the Football Clubs' Sport Performance and Their Chances to Reach UEFA Competitions?

Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Agnese, Pablo - 2022

This paper evaluates the European football clubs' compliance with UEFA Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations and the effect of financial stability on sport achievements. The empirical analysis uses data of teams competing in the 1st division of four top domestic leagues (Premier League, La Liga,...

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Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy

Tausch, Arno - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

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Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance

Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021

One expects those who lead organisations to affect their performance. If not why would organisations spend so much time and money appointing and incentivising their leaders? Yet there is little evidence establishing a causal link between leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game...

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Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes

Cremer, Helmuth - 2015

A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...

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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...

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The Economics of College Sports : Cartel Behavior vs. Amateurism

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2021

This paper studies intercollegiate athletics in the context of the theory of cartels. Some point to explicit attempts by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to restrict output and payments for factors of production as evidence of cartel behavior. Others argue that such limits...

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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2018

We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can … institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …-designed to take advantage of the spillover effects generated in scientific knowledge production networks …

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Home Bias in Top Economics Journals

Bethmann, Dirk; Bransch, Felix; Kvasnicka, Michael; … - 2023

Two of the top economics journals have institutional ties to a specific university, the Quarterly Journal of Economics …

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