This paper provides a study on conflicts of interest among college football coaches participating in the USA Today … individual coach ballots between 2005 and 2010, we find that coaches distort their rankings to reflect their own team … favorably and boost their own team's ranking more than two full positions. Coaches also rank teams they defeated more favorably …

win per season for a professional football team … pitch type in Major League Baseball and whether to run or pass in the National Football League. We observe more than three … million pitches in baseball and 125,000 play choices for football. We find systematic deviations from minimax play in both …

. To do so, we explore the behavior of professional soccer referees. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra … time at the end of a soccer game (called injury time), to compensate for lost time due to unusual stoppages. We test for … shortening close games where the home team is ahead, and lengthening close games where the home team is behind. They show no such …

commitment scenario. The empirical analysis takes advantage of a data set from Spanish soccer player contracts. Our test rejects …

While outsourcing of production from the U.S. to Mexico has been hailed in Mexico as a valuable engine of growth …

This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of football players in Europe …. We construct a panel dataset of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club performances in the first … number of tax and institutional changes: (a) the 1995 Bosman ruling which liberalized the European football market, (b) top …

using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location … that upset losses by the home team (losses in games that the home team was predicted to win by more than 3 points) lead to … victories by the home team have (at most) a small dampening effect on family violence. We also find that unexpected losses in …

natural experiment offered by the presence of thousands of international soccer (football) players in the European … propensity to behave violently on the soccer field, as measured by yellow and red cards. This link is robust to region fixed …, quality), outliers, and team fixed effects. Reinforcing our claim that we isolate cultures of violence rather than simple rule …

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new …

retirement. We test this prediction in a group of people—players in the National Football League (NFL)—whose income profile does …