While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...

We examine the impact of participation in sport at secondary school on post-school pathways using a survey of Irish school-leavers, distinguishing between those who dropped out of sport during their secondary school years and those who continued playing in their final school years. We find that...

This article analyzes the determinants of undergraduate varsity athletic teams' success in the Ivy League, a conference that prohibits athletic scholarships and holds its varsity athletes to high academic standards. The theoretical model suggests that the same factors that determine the...

We revisit a recent study by Lindo, Swensen, and Waddell (2012), who found a negative relationship between the success of the University of Oregon football team and the academic performance of students as measured by grades. Using data from Clemson University, we also find that the football...

This paper examines bias in soccer referees actions, particularly through their decisions regarding extra time added. We review the literature on principle-agent interactions, in particular as it applies to sporting contests, and isolate some potential causal mechanisms and hypotheses. We then...

Long-term deals are one tool that both players and franchises use to manage risk. That tool has been much discussed and empirically tested with respect to player shirking, and has more briefly, and only theoretically, discussed with respect to reducing variance in future payrolls. Our work looks...

The Internet has completely changed the landscape of the planet. As a result, many areas of the law are being re-thought or re-developed, while other new issues emerge that defy all remotely related regulations. Online gambling is one of those areas in which the laws have lagged behind the...

Racehorse trainers operate asset management businesses in which the assets owned by outside clients compete with those owned by managers for the latter's time, care and attention. Although this potentially leads to serious conflicts of interest, we find no evidence of an agency problem: in a...

We use stock market data for Borussia Dortmund GmbH amp; Co. KGaA - one of the leading German football clubs - for an application of the news model. Due to the specific characteristics of the news generating process, the case of a publicly traded sport club is a very appropriate candidate for...

Soccer coaches can easily be compared to CEOs as they operate in almost the same (or even stiffer) environment. Sports provides an ideal real world experiment to measure the effect of top-management changes. A statistical analysis of the results of 1979 games in Austria's Premier Soccer League...