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Women and competition in elimination tournaments: evidence from professional tennis data
Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - 2005
This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling for many tournament and player characteristics. Further...
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Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production: Evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - 2010
the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285515
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Why do leaders matter? The role of expert knowledge
Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2008
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders' characteristics. We show that a strong predictor of...
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Do former college athletes earn more at work? A nonparametric assessment
Henderson, Daniel J.; Olbrecht, Alexandre; Polachek, … - 2005
This paper investigates how students' collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic...
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Productivity, Wages, and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball
Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021637
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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682954
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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
– subsequent player performance and the durability of club-player relationship. Major League Baseball provides a compelling setting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761634
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Productivity, wages, and marriage: The case of major league baseball
Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278445
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285422
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Spillovers and Substitutability in Production
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex - 2019
workers can raise overall output unilaterally. Data from major league baseball support these predictions. They show that the …
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