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We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...
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This study explores the potential to use FIFA and men's World Cup football to advance LGBT rights. Transnational …-LGBT law in Russia, as well as the 2014 World Cup and socioeconomic protests in Brazil. In this context the World Cup will … unfold in Russia in 2018 and, for the first time in the Arab world, in socially conservative Qatar in 2022. The study …
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Collegiate sports have become increasingly popular in recent years with college football seeing, arguably, the greatest … rise in popularity. This has led to an increased number of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) bowl games, which now culminate … in a college football playoff. Universities are constantly developing new and innovative ways to increase revenue. One …
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We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments from 1998 to 2014. We use a hazard rate framework in which the effect of a red card is modeled as a shift in the goal-scoring rate. A red card may harm the team that receives a...
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We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments from 1998 to 2014. We use a hazard rate framework in which the effect of a red card is modeled as a shift in the goal-scoring rate. A red card may harm the team that receives a...
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Overlooked in the indictments of top FIFA officials and continuing investigations into corruption in the bidding process for the 2022 World Cup is the harm to Major League Soccer from not having the event in the United States. Applying current data about MLS revenues to a concept studied by...
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, between the fact that an Italian city hosted the 1990 World Football Cup and its crime rates. Analysis aims at better … used is panel data analysis. We found that hosting the 1990 World Football Cup led to a significant increase in most of …
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