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The stairways to heaven : a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess
Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008
We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646733
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Desperately seeking a Japanese Yokozuna
Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2023
Using data on wrestlers and tournaments since the early 1970s, we study promotion practices in Sumo, a Japanese traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo were treated less favorably than Japanese born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419245
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The Stairways to Heaven : A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2021
We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325351
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Not only in my genes : the effects of peers' genotype on obesity
Brunello, Giorgio; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, … - 2019
We use data from three waves of Add Health to study the short- and long-run effects of high school peers' genetic predisposition to high BMI - measured by grade-mates' average BMI polygenic scores - on adolescent and adult obesity in the U.S. We find that, in the short-run, a one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136975
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Parents, siblings and schoolmates : the effects of family-school interactions on educational achievement and long-term labor market outcomes
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2017
We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on … siblings and own parental education. We find that boys with sisters have worse employment prospects than boys with no sisters … dispersion of parental education increases. Overall, the size of the estimated effects is small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772350
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Parents, siblings and schoolmates
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2018
We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement …, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We … dispersion of parental education in the school increases. We also show that boys with sisters who are exposed to a higher share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790876
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Peer effects in higher education : does the field of study matter?
Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 48 (2010) 3, pp. 621-634
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003993038
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Residential peer effects in higher education: does the field of study matter?
Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); De Paola, Maria (contributor) - 2008
Economists have a poor understanding of the mechanisms underlying reduced-form college peer effects. In this paper we explore a candidate mechanism, the provision of school effort. We show that, when earnings reflect individual educational performance as well as the field of study selected at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003672774
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Not Only in My Genes : The Effects of Peers' Genotype on Obesity
Brunello, Giorgio - 2019
We use data from three waves of Add Health to study the short- and long-run effects of high school peers' genetic predisposition to high BMI – measured by grade-mates' average BMI polygenic scores – on adolescent and adult obesity in the U.S. We find that, in the short-run, a one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859288
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Not only in my genes : the effects of peers' genotype on obesity
Brunello, Giorgio; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, … - In: Journal of health economics 72 (2020), pp. 1-19
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495715