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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 … collective bargaining agreements in professional sports leagues as a benchmark. We also discuss how our results help understand …
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performance later. In this paper, we exploit high-frequency data on decision-making by Major League Baseball umpires to examine …
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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 analyzes the dynamics of prices in two online secondary markets for Major League Baseball tickets …
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The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in repeated interactions in a high-pressure setting with referees making the type of split-second decisions that might allow implicit racial biases to manifest themselves. Moreover, the...
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Many interesting elements of supply and demand are starkly observable in professional athletics. Understanding … institutional arrangements, competitive balance and labor-management relations requires a basic understanding of sports labor … pay; relative versus absolute demand; competitive and cooperative interactions across firms (teams); factor substitutions …
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"Short-run subsidies for health products are common in poor countries. How do they affect long-run adoption? We present a model of technology adoption in which people learn about a technology's effectiveness by using it (or observing others using it) for some time, but people quit using it too...
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importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in …
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This is the first paper to investigate the determinants of the demand for medical care in the People's Republic of … characteristics and work conditions impact the demand for medical care. Income elasticity is around 0.3, indicating medical care is a … necessity. Medical care demand is price inelastic, and price elasticity is larger in absolute value for poorer households …
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market. This paper examines the initial effects of the tax subsidy on the demand for health insurance using previously …
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