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The Household Budget Survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew T. - 2018
We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the surveys themselves as source material, have traced the...
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Latin American Household Budget Surveys 1913-1970 and What They Tell Us about Economic Inequality among Households
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Lanata Briones, Cecilia; … - 2018
available at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/globalincomeinequality/. In Appendix 1 we offer a synopsis of the history, context and …
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Inequality among European Working Households, 1890-1960
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew T.; … - 2018
In this article we map, for the first time, the time-path of the size distribution of income among working class households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household expenditure surveys. Many are not representative of the...
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The impact of participation in sports on educational attainment: new evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …
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National champion versus foreign takeover
Südekum, Jens - 2007
We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to economic patriotism. A...
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Symbolic values, value formation and interpersonal relations
Corneo, Giacomo - 2009
Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated...
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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed – subsequent player performance and the...
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No Better Moment to Score a Goal than Just Before Half Time? A Soccer Myth Statistically Tested
Baert, Stijn; Amez, Simon - 2016
We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this end, rich data on 1,179 games played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League are analysed. In contrast to the myth, we find that, conditional on the goal difference...
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Gender Stereotyping in Sports
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina; Sevilla, Almudena - 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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Desperately Seeking a Japanese Yokozuna
Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2023
traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo …
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