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Youth sports and the accumulation of human capital : positive contributions to cognitive and non-cognitive skills justify public support of youth sports
Leeds, Michael A. - 2015
In response to declining budgets, many school districts in the US have reduced funding for sports. In Europe, parents … may respond to difficult economic times by spending less on sports clubs for their children. Such cuts are unwise if … participating in sports is an investment good as well as a consumption good and adds to students' human capital. The value of sports …
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Integration of North and South American Players in Japan's Professional Baseball Leagues Teams in Japan’s two professional baseball leagues began to add foreign players to their ro...
Kawaura, Akihiko; La Croix, Sumner - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2011
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The shape of success: estimating contest success functions in sports
Peeters, Thomas - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2011
4 major American sports leagues. I ?nd that Tullock CSFs based on relative efforts fit the data better than Hirshleifer …
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Do soccer players play the mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium?
Azar, Ofer H.; Bar-Eli, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium (MSNE) is a commonly-used solution concept in game-theoretic models in various fields in economics, management, and other disciplines, but the experimental results whether the MSNE predicts well actual play in games is mixed. Consequently, evidence for...
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Estimating economic regional effects of Euro 2012.
Despiney, Barbara; Karpa, Waldemar - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2010
In 2007 Poland and Ukraine were awarded by UEFA to co-host the 2012 European Football Championships. This first "mega-event" to take place in the transition countries is commonly intended to yield large and lasting economic bebefits to the host cities. This point of view is rarely shared by...
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Sports Retailing in India : Opportunities, Constraints and Way Forward
Mukherjee, Arpita; Goswami, Ramneet; Goyal, Tanu M; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Sports retail is a small but fast growing segment of modern retail in India. Recently, the country has been hosting … many international sports and this has given a boost to this sector. Many foreign and domestic corporate retailers have … entered sports retail. Sports goods manufacturing is a focus area in the Foreign Trade Policy (2009-2014) and the government …
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The Effect of Gambling on Health: Evidence from Canada
Humphreys, Brad; Nyman, John; Ruseski, Jane E. - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - 2011
The relationship between gambling and health has important economic and public policy implications. We develop causal evidence about the relationship between recreational gambling and health using data from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) cycles 2.1, 3.1 and 4.1. Recreational...
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Competitive Balance in Sports Leagues: An Introduction
Zimbalist, Andrew S. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 3 (2002) 2, pp. 111-121
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Interleague Play and Baseball Attendance
Butler, Michael R. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 3 (2002) 4, pp. 320-334
The effects of interleague play on baseball attendance are estimated via a model of daily attendance from the 1999 season. The results suggest that interleague play results in about a 7% increase in attendance over a comparable intraleague game, yielding an increase in revenue from ticket sales...
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Production and Efficiency in Association Football
Carmichael, Fiona; Thomas, Dennis; Ward, Robert - In: Journal of Sports Economics 2 (2001) 3, pp. 228-243
of other, more interactive sports. This study attempts to partly fill the gap by using a new data source containing …
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