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answer this question, we use videos of professional women’s and men’s soccer. In some videos the gender of the athletes was … clear to see. In other videos, though, the gender of the athletes was blurred. We find that participants only rate men …’s soccer videos higher when the gender of the players is visible. These findings reveal a bias in the evaluation of men’s and …
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national soccer team within a country to identify the causal impact of gender equality on women’s soccer performance. In … genders, which serve as measures for the country’s gender equality, are able to explain differences in the international … male teams, suggesting that gender equality is an important driver of female sport success. …
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national soccer team within a country to identify the causal impact of gender equality on women's soccer performance. In … genders, which serve as measures for the country's gender equality, are able to explain differences in the international … male teams, suggesting that gender equality is an important driver of female sport success …
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College athletics, despite being amateur in their nature, have burgeoned into multi-million dollar businesses. However, although there have been many studies of professional athletic leagues, little has been done to examine college athletics as a business. This paper tests popular assumptions...
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Football head coach pay at the college level has risen dramatically over the past decade. At the same time, football head coaches have experienced an average tenure of 4-5 years. This leads to the natural question are these relatively quick hires good for the team and can they also bring quick...
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This paper investigates the final bid prices for players during the first three seasons of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Although the IPL imposes a salary cap and other labor-market restrictions, it is anticipated that final bid prices reflect the aggregate value of player productivity...
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Experts' voting behavior is conjectured to be more objective than peer voting (own group/peers) and public voters (everyone interested), who are supposedly influenced by all sorts of subjective aspects. We examine differences in voting behavior between these groups by analyzing the voting...
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Popular wisdom regarding athletics is that offenses are at a relative disadvantage in the early portion of seasons. We present evidence that this anecdotal belief holds true over the 2000-2010 National Football League (NFL) seasons. This is reflected in lower offensive yardage, fewer first...
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This paper examines the determinants of head coaching salaries in men’s and women’s collegiate soccer. Both of these sports are considered non-revenue sports, and thus differences in sports revenues should not impact coaching salaries. We analyze salaries of head coaches in these sports to...
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