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basketball. Using data from the Division I National Championships, we find evidence consistent with the idea that women’s college … basketball is less competitively balanced than men’s college basketball. We argue that this difference may be explained by a … subsequently utilized in Berri (2004). An implication of this idea is that competitive balance in women’s NCCA basketball will …
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College football and men’s basketball are the largest revenue generators in college athletics. Studies funded by … stadiums or arenas at considerable public expense. Our analysis of the economic impact of home football and men’s basketball … early-2007 fails to support these claims. Men’s basketball games at these universities have no statistically significant …
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College football and men’s basketball are the largest revenue generators in college athletics. Studies funded by … stadiums or arenas at considerable public expense. Our analysis of the economic impact of home football and men’s basketball … early-2007 fails to support these claims. Men’s basketball games at these universities have no statistically significant …
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The NCAA and its member schools are a joint venture that fixes the compensation of its most important workers, the athletes, at a level that is substantially below what would otherwise occur in a competitive market. Claims of amateurism and the need for competitive balance obscure the more than...
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The NBA league office states that the playing schedule is devised to ensure competitive balance while keeping an eye towards minimizing costs. This paper examines those claims. Three years of travel data were analyzed and the results imply that the use of back-to-back road games in the NBA...
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variabili. […] This paper aims at analysing the performance of CB in Italian basketball championship. First, it examines the …
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basketball coaches. Within women's basketball, female head coaches earn base salaries 9% higher than males. Estimates from a … this earnings gap. The base salaries of women's head basketball coaches of both sexes are also compared to those of men …'s head basketball coaches. Women's head coaches of either gender earn about 50% of the base salary of the average men's head …
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of attendance to Division I women’s collegiate basketball programs from 2000 …-2009. The evidence suggests that women’s basketball attendance is sensitive to many of the same variables known to influence … attendance to men’s collegiate basketball, including current and recent team quality, recent post-season success, and school …
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This paper provides an empirical examination of the economic impact of spectator sports on local economies. Confirming the results of other ex post analyses of sports in general, this paper finds no statistically significant evidence that college football games in particular contribute...
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