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Skills, Performance, and Earnings in the Tournament Compensation Model
Shmanske, Stephen - In: Journal of Sports Economics 9 (2008) 6, pp. 644-662
Previous research on professional golf has estimated reduced-form models in which earnings are a function of skills measured as year-long averages. Using individual, tournament-level data, this article makes three improvements. First, the use of tournament-level data removes measurement error in...
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Overtime Incentives in the National Hockey League (NHL)
Shmanske, Stephen; Lowenthal, Franklin - In: Journal of Sports Economics 8 (2007) 4, pp. 435-442
The National Hockey League (NHL) in 1999-2000 changed its rules for games that are tied at the end of regulation time. The old rules called for the team to be awarded two points for a win, one for a tie, and zero for a loss. The league felt that play was too conservative during overtime because...
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Does Intercollegiate Athletics Draw Local Students to a University?
Perez, Stephen J. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 13 (2012) 2, pp. 198-206
This article presents evidence showing that success in football and men’s basketball at the National Collegiate … Division I basketball team results in an increase of 0.018 percentage points. …
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Productivity and New Audiences: Empirical Evidence From Professional Basketball
Deutscher, Christian - In: Journal of Sports Economics 12 (2011) 3, pp. 391-403
shooting performance. The data set includes all free throw attempts for 10 seasons from the National Basketball Association …
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Skin Tone and Wages: Evidence From NBA Free Agents
Robst, John; VanGilder, Jennifer; Coates, Corinne E.; … - In: Journal of Sports Economics 12 (2011) 2, pp. 143-156
, professional basketball players. One innovation is to use an objective measure of skin tone. The authors find only weak support for …
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Equal Pay on the Hardwood: The Earnings Gap between Male and Female NCAA Division I Basketball Coaches
Humphreys, Brad R. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 1 (2000) 3, pp. 299-307
basketball coaches. Within women's basketball, female head coaches earn base salaries 9% higher than males. Estimates from a … this earnings gap. The base salaries of women's head basketball coaches of both sexes are also compared to those of men …'s head basketball coaches. Women's head coaches of either gender earn about 50% of the base salary of the average men's head …
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Immediate Effects of On-The-Job Training and Its Intensity
Nutting, Andrew W. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 14 (2013) 3, pp. 303-320
National Basketball Association home teams produce more defense and more wins the more consecutive games they play at …
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Celebrity Misbehavior in the NBA
Kendall, Todd D. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 9 (2008) 3, pp. 231-249
I compare and contrast theories of why NBA players misbehave on the court, then test them empirically. I find evidence that earnings are positively correlated with misbehavior and that both absolute and relative salary matter. For instance, a player who is highest paid on his team misbehaves...
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An Examination of NBA MVP Voting Behavior
Coleman, B. Jay; DuMond, J. Michael; Lynch, Allen K. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 9 (2008) 6, pp. 606-627
The selection process of the most valuable player (MVP) in the National Basketball Association (NBA) was recently …
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When Is the Honeymoon Over? National Basketball Association Attendance 1971-2000
Leadley, John C.; Zygmont, Zenon X. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 6 (2005) 2, pp. 203-221
This article uses a Tobit analysis to test for the presence of a honeymoon effect for National Basketball Association …
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