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-family incentives. Others argue that violent episodes represent a loss of control that the offender immediately regrets. In this paper … using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …
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This paper provides a study on conflicts of interest among college football coaches participating in the USA Today … conflict of interest studies, because many agents are evaluating the same thing, private incentives to distort evaluations are … 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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