The sports industry provides a seemingly endless set of examples from every area of
microeconomics, giving students the opportunity to study economics in a context that holds …

Social Inequality and Social Stratification in US Society uses a historical and conceptual
framework to explain social stratification and social inequality. The historical scope gives …

Using data on about 35,000 professional tennis matches, we test whether men and women
react differently to psychological pressure arising from the outcomes of sequential stages in …

Introduction Psychologists are particularly interested in how people operate in stressful
settings. The sporting arena is a “natural laboratory” for studying how people behave and …

Due to physical differences between the genders, it is hard to study whether women also
vary from men in their competitive drive in sports. The Olympic committee instituted major …

This contribution empirically investigates the adverse effects of unbalanced competition and
negative feedback in team contests in the field. Using a unique data set sourced from top …

We use high-volume data from professional tennis to estimate the causal effect of past on
current performance for women and men. To identify this effect, we exploit double faults as …

Objectives Women are underrepresented in top positions and experimental evidence
suggests that one explanation is gender differences in preferences for competition, that is …

Objective We address the impact of policy intervention in youth tennis targeted at mitigating
the influence of labor market‐persistent relative age effects known to exist in age‐grouped …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the frequent references to “Real Madrid
DNA”, when a team comes from behind in the last minutes of a match, could be understood …