Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - 2014
We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … would suggest. Second, career effects differ by relative age. Those born in early calendar months (January to April) are … more likely to make it into the NHL, but display significantly lower performance across all birth cohorts than later …