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Does Employing Skilled Immigrants Enhance Competitive Performance? Evidence from European Football Clubs

Glennon, Britta; Morales, Francisco; Carnahan, Seth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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

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Peer Information and Risk-taking under Competitive and Non-competitive Pay Schemes

Brookins, Philip - 2016

Incentive schemes that reward participants based on their relative performance are often thought to be particularly risk-inducing. Using a novel, real-effort task experiment in the laboratory, we find that the relationship between incentives and risk-taking is more nuanced and depends critically...

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The Causes of Peer Effects in Production : Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments

Horton, John J. - 2016

Workers respond to the output choices of their peers. What explains this well documented phenomenon of peer effects? Do workers value equity, fear punishment from equity-minded peers, or does output from peers teach them about employers' expectations? We test these alternative explanations in a...

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Self-, Peer-, and Teacher Perceptions under School Tracking

Malamud, Ofer; Mitrut, Andreea; Pop-Eleches, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine student, teacher, and peer perceptions of effort, ability, performance, and self-confidence in Romania's highly tracked schools. We find that: (1) students just above a cutoff--tracked into high-achieving classes--have less favorable self-perceptions than those just below...

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Professionals Do Not Play Minimax : Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League

Kovash, Kenneth - 2009

win per season for a professional football team … 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 …

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Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League

Massey, Cade - 2005

the decision making of National Football League teams during their annual player draft. This is a domain in which …

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Testing out Contractual Incompleteness : Evidence from Soccer

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol - 2005

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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Favoritism Under Social Pressure

Garicano, Luis - 2001

shortening close games where the home team is ahead, and lengthening close games where the home team is behind. They show no such …

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

Kotchen, Matthew - 2011

This paper provides a study on conflicts of interest among college football coaches participating in the USA Today … individual coach ballots between 2005 and 2010, we find that coaches distort their rankings to reflect their own team … favorably and boost their own team's ranking more than two full positions. Coaches also rank teams they defeated more favorably …

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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality

Breza, Emily - 2016

The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...

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