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| Title: | | The stairways to heaven: a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess  |
| Authors: | | Ariga, Kenn Brunello, Giorgio Iwahashi, Roki Rocco, Lorenzo |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3327 |
| Abstract: | | We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find no evidence that the players in our sample from the ex-Warsaw Pact are more talented than European and American players, there is evidence that they face lower training costs. |
| Subjects: | | Occupational choice sports and games |
| JEL: | | J24 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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