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Conflicts of Interest Distort Public Evaluations : Evidence from the Top 25 Ballots of NCAA Football Coaches

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2011

This paper provides a study on conflicts of interest among college football coaches participating in the USA Today … percent of a coach's football budget, coaches respond with more favorable rankings of half a position, and this effect is more …

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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

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 … 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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Favoritism Under Social Pressure

Garicano, Luis; Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio; Prendergast, … - 2021

This paper provides empirical evidence of favoritism by agents, where that favoritism is generated by social pressure. 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...

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Testing Out Contractual Incompleteness : Evidence from Soccer

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol; Comin, Diego - 2021

The theory of incomplete contracting is rival to that of complete contracting as a frame of reference to understand contractual relationships. Both approaches rest upon diametrically opposed postulates and lead to very different policy conclusions. From a theoretical viewpoint, scrutiny of the...

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Do Grants to Charities Crowd Out Other Income? Evidence from the UK

Andreoni, James - 2013

We present new evidence on the effect of grants on charities' incomes. We employ a novel identification strategy, focusing on charities that applied for lottery grant funding and comparing outcomes for successful and unsuccessful applicants. Overall, grants do not crowd out other income but the...

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Debt into Growth : How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution

Ventura, Jaume - 2015

Why did the country that borrowed the most industrialize first? Earlier research has viewed the explosion of debt in 18th century Britain as either detrimental, or as neutral for economic growth. In this paper, we argue instead that Britain's borrowing boom was beneficial. The massive issuance...

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Does Fiscal Policy Matter? Blinder and Solow Revisited

Farmer, Roger E. A. - 2010

This paper uses the old-Keynesian representative agent model developed in Farmer (2010b) to answer two questions: 1) do increased government purchases crowd out private consumption? 2) do increased government purchases reduce unemployment? Farmer compared permanent tax financed expenditure paths...

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Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities

Andreoni, James - 2010

When the government gives a grant to a private charitable organization, do the donors to that organization give less? If they do, is it because the grants crowd out donors who feel they gave through taxes (classic crowd out), or is it because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the...

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Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-Out of Private Insurance Under Recent Chip Expansions to Higher Income Children

Gresenz, Carole R. - 2012

We analyze the effects of states' expansions of CHIP eligibility to children in higher income families during 2002-2009 on take-up of public coverage, crowd-out of private coverage, and rates of uninsurance. Our results indicate these expansions were associated with limited uptake of public...

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Crowding-Out Charitable Contributions in Canada : New Knowledge from the North

Andreoni, James - 2011

Using data from charitable organizations in the US, authors have established that government grants to charities largely crowd out giving from other sources, but that this reduction is due mostly to reduced fundraising activities of the charity itself. We use much more detailed data from over...

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