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Estimated costs of contact in college and high school male sports

Fair, Ray C.; Champa, Christopher - 2017 - Revised October 2017

Injury rates in twelve U.S. men’s college sports and five U.S. boys' high school sports are examined in this paper. The … sports are categorized as "contact" or "non-contact," and differences in injury rates between the two are examined. Injury … rates in the contact sports are considerably higher than those in the non-contact sports and they are on average more severe …

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Can you leave high school behind?

Black, Sandra E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cullinane, Jenna; … - 2014

In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these students will perform. This paper examines the relationship...

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Professional Sporting Events and Traffic : Evidence from US Cities

Humphreys, Brad R. - 2017

Sporting events concentrate people at specific locations on game day. No empirical evidence currently exists linking sporting events to local traffic conditions. We analyze urban mobility data from 25 US metropolitan areas with MLB teams over the period 1990 to 2014 to assess the relationship...

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Lack of Integrity? Rebutting the Myth that U.S. Commercial Sports Leagues Have an Intellectual Property Right to Sports Gambling Proceeds

Edelman, Marc - 2018

Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”) violated the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and thus the U ….S. government may not use PASPA to prevent states from legalizing commercial sports gambling. In anticipation of this ruling, four U ….S. states have already passed new laws to legalize and regulate sports gambling. Meanwhile, fifteen states currently have sports …

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