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Who Profits from Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports
Garthwaite, Craig - 2020
Intercollegiate amateur athletics in the US largely bars student-athletes from sharing in any of the profits generated … 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 …
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Social Capital and Labor Market Networks
Asquith, Brian - 2019
We explore the links between social capital and labor market networks at the neighborhood level. We harness rich data taken from multiple sources, including matched employer-employee data with which we measure the strength of labor market networks, data on behavior such as voting patterns that...
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Party on : The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks and Socializing
Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Miller, Matthew; Sheng, Shuyang; … - 2022
A person’s schooling years are a formative time for cognitive development, and also a period of intense social interaction and friendship formation. In this paper, we estimate the production of social capital during adolescence and its effect on wages. We develop a model where homophily and...
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How Much is Social Capital Worth?
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...
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Connective Capital as Social Capital : The Value of Problem-Solving Networks for Team Players in Firms
Ichniowski, Casey - 2010
Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of...
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Academics vs. Athletics : Career Concerns for NCAA Division I Coaches
Avery, Christopher; Cadman, Brian D.; Cassar, Gavin - 2021
that an increase in Academic Progress Rate, as measured by the NCAA, for a college team in either sport significantly …
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Network-Mediated Knowledge Spillovers : A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis of Information Security Innovations
Branstetter, Lee - 2017
A large and growing literature has used patent and patent citation data to measure knowledge spillovers across inventions and organizations, but relatively few papers in this literature have explicitly considered the collaboration networks formed by inventors as a mechanism for shaping and...
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Keep it Simple : A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in Social Networks
Batista, Catia - 2018
SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. To investigate their effectiveness, we conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to study information sharing through mobile phone messages. Subjects are rural households in Mozambique who have access to mobile money. In the base treatment,...
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Connecting to Power : Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their productivity and to overcome certain market frictions. Our...
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What Drives Differences in Management?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of “structured” management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts...
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