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Optimally scheduling real world sports leagues by reduction to SAT
Horbach, Andrei; Bartsch, Thomas; Briskorn, Dirk - 2009
Several types of constraints must be satisfied by schedules of real world sports leagues, e. g. stadium unavailability … constraints are considered as 'soft' ones. There are various models appropriately describing the environment of real sport leagues … here a model which satisfies the demands of many sports leagues. We solve our model by a method which consists in …
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Game of Organizing International Cricket: Co-Existence of Country-Line and Club-Line Games
Das, Satya Prasanna - 2008
The paper presents an economic model of interaction between cricket boards, players and international club-line games sponsors like ICL or IPL. It attempts to capture the inherent conflict between such games and country-line games traditionally organized by cricket boards. It identifies the...
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Game of Organizing International Cricket: Co-Existence of Country-Line and Club-Line Games
Das, Satya Prasanna - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-32, pp. 1-29
The paper presents an economic model of interaction between cricket boards, players and international club-line games sponsors like ICL or IPL. It attempts to capture the inherent conflict between such games and country-line games traditionally organized by cricket boards. It identifies the...
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Financial and ethical risk-taking by young adults: A role for family dynamics during childhood
Kennison, Shelia M.; Wood, Erin E.; Byrd-Craven, Jennifer; … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-13
The research tested the hypothesis that childhood relationships with parents were related to risk-taking by young adults. Prior research has shown that risk-taking by young children is related to their interactions with mothers and fathers. Few studies have examined how family relationships...
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Trends in the Female Longevity Advantage of 19th-Century Birth Cohorts: Exploring the Role of Place and Fertility
Fletcher, Jason M.; Topping, Michael; Joo, Won-tak - 2023
This paper uses massive online genealogy data from the United States over the 19th century to estimate period and cohort-based sex differences in longevity. Following previous work, we find a longevity reversal in the mid-19th century that expanded rapidly for at least a half century. For...
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Socio-economic differences in suicide risk vary by sex : A population-based case-control study of 18-65 year olds in Denmark
Rodríguez, Antonio; Collings, Sunny; Qin, Ping - 2008
The objective of this paper was to investigate variations in the risk of suicide by socioeconomic status/position (SES) for men and women. Data on 15,648 suicide deaths between 18-65 year old men and women over the period 1981-1997 were linked to data on SES indicators, using a nested case...
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The impact of participation in sports on educational attainment: new evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …
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Zur empirischen Prüfbarkeit des homo (socio-)oeconomicus anhand der Messung der Motive ehrenamtlichen Engagements in Sportvereinen
Flatau, Jens; Emrich, Eike; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2013
Unter der Annahme eines prinzipiell seinen Nutzen zu maximieren versuchenden den homo socio-oeconomicus sollten entsprechende Motive aus der Vielzahl theoretisch denkbarer Motive zu ehrenamtlichem Engagement dominant sein. Da diese Motive jedoch im Gegensatz zu altruistischen sozial...
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Gender Wage Gap and the Welfare-Enhancing Role of Parental Leave Rules
Bastani, Spencer; Blumkin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - In: ifo DICE Report 15 (2017) 2, pp. 3-7
A large body of empirical evidence documents the gender variation in labour market outcomes. A major factor that contributes to persistent gender gaps in labour market performance is women's traditional role in the household. Child-related absences from work imply that women accumulate less job...
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On her own account: How strengthening women's financial control impacts labor supply and gender norms
Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; … - 2019
Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and infuence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program were directly deposited into...
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