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This paper analyses the income effect of the participation in elite sports. To quantify the average difference in the monthly net income of former elite athletes and non-athletes we estimate sample average treatment effect scores (SATT) by using covariate nearest-neighbour matching (CVM). While...
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Die vorliegende Studie geht der Frage nach, ob und inwiefern ehemalige Leistungssportler im späteren Berufsleben erfolgreicher sind als Nichtsportler. Die zugrundeliegende Überlegung ist, dass sich Leistungssport positiv auf die Entwicklung von Charaktereigenschaften auswirkt, die auch im...
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Die vorliegende Studie geht der Frage nach, ob und inwiefern ehemalige Leistungssportler im späteren Berufsleben erfolgreicher sind als Nichtsportler. Die zugrundeliegende Überlegung ist, dass sich Leistungssport positiv auf die Entwicklung von Charaktereigenschaften auswirkt, die auch im...
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This paper analyses the income effect of the participation in elite sports using a unique dataset on former German top-level athletes. To quantify the average treatment effect we use covariate nearestneighbour matching. While our treatment group consists of formerly top-level athletes the...
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This paper analyses the income effect of the participation in elite sports. To quantify the average difference in the monthly net income of former elite athletes and non-athletes we estimate sample average treatment effect scores (SATT) by using covariate nearest-neighbour matching (CVM). While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011085449
Im Zuge der von der Energiewende wird zunehmend die Frage diskutiert, wie bei einem forcierten Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien und der dadurch zunehmenden Fluktuation der Stromerzeugung die Versorgungssicherheit gewährleistet werden kann. Zur Diskussion steht die Einführung von...
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The fundamental change of energy policy in Germany (the so-called Energiewende) has lead to a discussion how the security of electricity supply will be affected by the heavily subsidised expansion of electricity generation from renewable energies, as electricity generation from renewable...
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We estimate the impact of renewable energy sources on the merit order and the wholesale price in Spain. We use a structural vectorautoregressive model for the merit order of production and argue that wind and solar production are exogenous to the system. As expected the overall effect is...
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This article analyzes the interdependency between the market for music recordings on the one side and the market for concert tickets on the other side, assuming that there are positive indirect network effects both from the record market to ticket sales for live performances and vice versa. In a...
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There is a wide range of magazines, newspapers, TV shows, and websites providing information on products based on product reviews or expert opinions. A natural question is, whether these reviews and expert opinions have effects on product sales. There is a small but growing literature in...
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