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Enforcement Design and Targeted Deterrence in Professional Sports: Evidence From NBA Anti‐Flopping Reforms

open access: yesManagerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines strategic responses to alternative enforcement designs in professional basketball. Using NBA player‐level panel data, we study two anti‐flopping reforms: ex post financial fines introduced in 2012–2013 and in‐game technical fouls implemented in 2023–2024.
Juan Ignacio Martín‐Legendre   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Worker Relocations and Worker Performance: Evidence From the National Basketball Association

open access: yesManagerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study uses National Basketball Association (NBA) player data to test for impacts of worker relocations on worker performance. Using mid‐season trades in the NBA as a setting in which workers are relocated with little notice and time for preparation, we estimate difference‐in‐difference fixed‐effects regressions to test whether employer ...
Kejian Zhu, Richard J. Paulsen
wiley   +1 more source

Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia

open access: yesOceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
wiley   +1 more source

Birds of many feathers? Examining perceptions among US birders following the American Ornithological Society's eponymous renaming decision

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2023, the American Ornithological Society announced it will phase out the English eponymous (honorific) names of 152 bird species in the United States and Canada, some of which are named after historical figures with racist, genocidal, or otherwise violent histories that serve as reminders of ornithology's exclusive origins.
Kirsten Vinyeta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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