Favouritism and financial incentives: A natural experiment
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Rickman, N and Witt, R (2008) Favouritism and financial incentives: A natural experiment Economica, 75 (298). pp. 296-309.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0335.2007.00605.x
Abstract
Principals who exercise favouritism towards certain agents may harm those who are not so favoured. We address this issue in the context of a natural experiment from English soccer. We study the effects of professional referees on a common measure of referee bias: length of injury time in close matches. We find that referees exercised a degree of favouritism prior to professionalism but not afterwards, having controlled for selection and soccer-wide effects. We also discuss the suitability of the variable that we, and others, use to measure favouritism, noting that alternative interpretations may be possible.
| Item Type: | Article | |||||||||
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| Divisions : | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Economics | |||||||||
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| Date : | May 2008 | |||||||||
| DOI : | 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2007.00605.x | |||||||||
| Uncontrolled Keywords : | HOME ADVANTAGE, FAVORITISM, SPORT, BIAS, COST | |||||||||
| Additional Information : | This is an electronic version of an Article published in Economica, 75 (298), 296-309, May 2008. The definitive version is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com. | |||||||||
| Depositing User : | Symplectic Elements | |||||||||
| Date Deposited : | 19 Apr 2012 11:26 | |||||||||
| Last Modified : | 31 Oct 2017 14:32 | |||||||||
| URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/430852 |
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