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  • IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of sport

    IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of sport with Mike Leeds from Temple University, Lawrence Kahn from Cornell University and Kerry Papps from University of Bradford

    The questions in the discussion include:
    - Could you generalize about the size of discriminatory outcomes in sports? If not, how about some examples, including from the world’s most important sport—football—which we Americans call soccer?
    - Make or buy is a standard question for managers generally? What about in sports—train your own, or poach from other sports franchises?
    - How can we measure individual productivity in sports, when, except for golf or tennis or skiing, for examples, the outcome results from team efforts?
    - Why should someone with no interest in sports per se care about this? And if they should, what are some additional examples that are readily generalizable?
    - Babe Ruth made $100K in his peak year, around double the U.S. President then. (He justified the salary by saying he was more productive than Calvin Coolidge!) Today’s stars in are earning 100 times what the U.S. president is paid. Is The Babe’s explanation still valid, or is there more to the astronomical salaries?

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  • IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of education

    IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of education with Shqiponja Telhaj from the University of Sussex, Eric Taylor from Harvard University and John Friedman from Brown University

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  • IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of crime

    IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of crime with Nadia Campaniello from the University of Torino and Kevin Schnepel from Simon Fraser University

    The questions discussed include:

    - How does education affect the kind of crimes one might engage in?
    - What crime might one be more likely to commit as a college graduate?
    - How can we reduce crime through diversion?
    - What kind of crimes do women commit that are different to men?
    - If there is a crime that both men and women commit – is there a difference in the amount of jail time served? Are women treated with more leniency?
    - The opioid epidemic – if we entirely eliminated opioid addiction, how much would property crime be reduced?
    - What makes repeat crime more likely?

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  • IZA World of Labor discussion on higher education

    IZA World of Labor discussion on higher education with Susanna Loeb from Stanford University, Doug Webber from the Consumer and Community Research Section of the Federal Reserve Board and John Winters from Iowa State University

    Question for all participants: One of the real staples of labor economics is measuring the rate of return to higher education. Is it a result of marketable skills that people have gained at university?
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