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 …

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

We analyze the promotions and firings of NCAA Division 1 college basketball and college football coaches to assess … that an increase in Academic Progress Rate, as measured by the NCAA, for a college team in either sport significantly …

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 …

We introduce the possibility of direct punishment by specialized enforcers into a model of community enforcement … specialized enforcement technology is sufficiently effective, cooperation is best sustained by a "single enforcer punishment … punishment that enforcers are willing to impose on deviators. Conversely, when the specialized enforcement technology is …

overcome these difficulties by studying European football (soccer) clubs during 1990-2020. Detailed microdata from this setting …

win per season for a professional football team …. Laboratory experiments have generated large and systematic deviations from the minimax predictions. Data gleaned from real-world … to reject. In this paper, we explore minimax play in two high stakes, real world settings that are data rich: choice of …

present in many "real world" settings mitigate judgment and decision-making biases. To investigate this question, we analyze … the decision making of National Football League teams during their annual player draft. This is a domain in which …