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Earnings and performance in women's professional alpine skiing

16 Oct 2012

We test the predictions of tournament theory using data from competitions in the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup. Based on data from more than 60 Giant Slalom and Downhill events held over the period 2001-2010, female professional Alpine skiers respond to tournament incentives; times in both events were faster in events with a larger spread in the prize distribution when controlling for course characteristics and the number of contestants in the race. In this setting women engage in vigorous competition in response to monetary incentives.
economics mathematics sport regression standard errors errors and residuals errors indicator variables skis and skiing telemark skiing snowboarding skiing women athletes tennis error term alpine skiing slalom racing para-alpine skiing downhill (ski competition) fis alpine ski world cup slalom skiing super-g fis world cup individual sports skiing for women giant slalom

Authors

Che, XiaoGang

Pages
22
Published in
Canada

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