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Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2015

This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being "on the bubble" of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong...

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The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A

Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a … judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the … determinants of match rigging and use this information in identifying corruption episodes in years in which there are no pending …

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Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being “on the bubble” of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163483

Top-down vs. bottom-up: The long-term impact of government ideology and personal experience on values

Ziebarth, Nicolas; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013

This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose...

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The impact of legalized casino gambling on crime

Nichols, Mark W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2013

We examine the impact of legalized casino gambling, including Indian casinos, on crime. Using county-level data between 1994 and 2009, the impact that casino legalization had on crime is examined. Our results show an increase in crime associated with casinos in some circumstances, but not...

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Gender Differences in Reaction to Psychological Pressure: Evidence from Tennis Players

De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015

Using data on about 35,000 professional tennis matches, we test whether men and women react differently to psychological pressure arising from the outcomes of sequential stages in a competition. We show that, with respect to males, females losing the first set are much more likely to play poorly...

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Are Sunk Costs Irrelevant? Evidence from Playing Time in the National Basketball Association

Leeds, Daniel; Leeds, Michael A.; Motomura, Akira - 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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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013

Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...

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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias

Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data

Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...

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