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participation in sports and tournaments raises the cognitive performance and thereby justifies the better outcomes at the labour … extensive cognitive tests. The participation in sports tournaments and some variety in one's activities increase the cognitive …
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While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...
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We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individ-ual physical activity and sports … studies in empirical economics, all the papers seem to agree that individual leisure sports participation and physical …
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Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individ-ual sports and exercise on …
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Ever since the pioneering work of Rottenberg (1956) and Neale (1964), the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis (UOH) has played a major role in the economic analysis of professional sport leagues. However, decades f empirical research have not been successful in establishing clear evidence for the...
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bid decision is shaped by experience in hosting major sports events, a country and regional rotation, persistence and …
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(possibly together with the sports association) violates European competition law in two ways. First, it allegedly abuses its … and enforcing a heavily biased horizontal allocation of media revenues, benefitting the cartel teams. Professional sports … sports authority and the participants, and (ii) horizontal allocation among the participants. Different professional sports …
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participation in that sport. This study is the first to analyze the impact of sports heroes on the membership figures of the … corresponding sports association by means of an econometric analysis. We do so by evaluating the so-called 'Boris Becker effect' by …
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This paper contributes to the analysis of large sporting events using highly disaggregated data. We use the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, which are also outstanding as one of the very few large sporting events where ex post academic analysis found significant positive effects. This paper...
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La presente comunicación surge con el objetivo de analizar los efectos de la celebración de un evento deportivo en una localidad. En concreto, se presta atención al impacto económico de la celebración en el municipio de Pontevedra del XVII Campeonato de España "Open" de Invierno Master de...
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