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Who Profits from Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports
Garthwaite, Craig - 2020
rents flow to women's sports and other men's sports and lead to increased spending on facilities, coaches' salaries, and … other athletic department personnel. Using complete roster data for every student-athlete playing sports at these schools in … collective bargaining agreements in professional sports leagues as a benchmark. We also discuss how our results help understand …
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Professionals Do Not Play Minimax : Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League
Kovash, Kenneth; Levitt, Steven D. - 2021
data sets. Pitchers appear to throw too many fastballs; football teams pass less than they should. In both sports, there is …
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The Promise of Beijing : Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
Chen, Yuyu - 2011
To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using officially reported air pollution index (API) from 2000 to 2009, we show that these measures improved the API of Beijing during and after the Games, but 60% of the effect faded away by...
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Who Wins the Olympic Games : Economic Development and Medal Totals
Bernard, Andrew B.; Busse, Meghan R. - 2021
This paper examines determinants of Olympic success at the country level. Does the U.S. win its fair share of Olympic medals? Why does China win 6% of the medals even though it has 1/5 of the world's population? We consider the role of population and economic development in determining medal...
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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
Pope, Devin G. - 2013
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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Hot Shots : An Analysis of the ‘Hot Hand’ in NBA Field Goal and Free Throw Shooting
Lantis, Robert; Nesson, Erik - 2021
We investigate the hot hand hypothesis using detailed data on free throws and field goal attempts for the 2004-2005 through 2015-2016 NBA regular seasons. Free throws represent a more controlled setting, allowing a closer examination of the potential physiological mechanisms behind success in...
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It'S Fourth Down and What Does the Bellman Equation Say? A Dynamic Programming Analysis of Football Strategy
Romer, David H. - 2021
This paper uses play-by-play accounts of virtually all regular season National Football League games for 1998-2000 to analyze teams' choices on fourth down between trying for a first down and kicking. Dynamic programming is used to estimate the values of possessing the ball at different points...
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Family Violence and Football : The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
Card, David - 2009
Family violence is a pervasive and costly problem, yet there is no consensus on how to interpret the phenomenon of violence by one family member against another. Some analysts assume that violence has an instrumental role in intra-family incentives. Others argue that violent episodes represent a...
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The Olympic Effect
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2010
Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting quot;mega-eventsquot; such as the Olympic Games or the World Cup, since such activities have considerable cost and seem to yield few tangible benefits. These doubts are rarely shared by policy-makers and the population, who are...
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Lead Exposure Reduces Academic Performance : Intensity, Duration, and Nutrition Matter
Hollingsworth, Alex; Huang, Mike; Rudik, Ivan; Sanders, … - 2022
We leverage a natural experiment, where a large national automotive racing organization switched from leaded to unleaded fuel, to study how ambient lead exposure and nutrition impact learning in elementary school. This provides quasi-experimental evidence linking measured quantities of lead...
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