Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … more likely to make it into the NHL, but display significantly lower performance across all birth cohorts than later … calendar births. In short, those in the top echelon of NHL achievement are drawn from fatter cohorts and later relative age …
