Arbeitspapier
The stairways to heaven: a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess
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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3327
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Subject
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Occupational choice
sports and games
Berufswahl
Sport
Spielwaren
Erwerbsverlauf
Berufsbegleitende Ausbildung
Kosten
Theorie
Transformationsstaaten
Westeuropa
USA
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Ariga, Kenn
Brunello, Giorgio
Iwahashi, Roki
Rocco, Lorenzo
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2008
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Ariga, Kenn
- Brunello, Giorgio
- Iwahashi, Roki
- Rocco, Lorenzo
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2008
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