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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how politicians use the assignment of officials to geographical posts—a personnel system found in many countries—as a system of incentives to control, and possibly corrupt, bureaucratic behavior. The argument is developed with a matching model and tested with a nationwide survey of Indian officials who administer land ...
Anustubh Agnihotri +2 more
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Economic inequality and academic perseverance: Evidence from 73 countries
British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Academic perseverance is important for educational success, yet research has focused mainly on individual and proximal environmental factors, with limited attention to broader socioeconomic contexts. Aims This study examined whether national economic inequality was associated with students' academic perseverance and whether this ...
Yifan Wang, Yanru Liu, Dennis Alonzo
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British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Two classes of probabilistic models are compared: the true and error (TE) type models and models in the family of the basic local independence model (BLIM). The former finds applications in the study of human preference, whereas the latter has been developed within the theory of knowledge structures with the aim of producing knowledge ...
Luca Stefanutti +2 more
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The Effects of Financial Incentives on Women’s Performance: The Tournament Theory Applied to Female Tennis Players [PDF]
Management and Economics Review, 2017 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the management model of women’s professional tennis by using the theoretical framework of the tournament theory. Indeed, this sport is particularly appropriate to study the effects of financial incentives on women ...
Matthieu LLORCA +2 more
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Invertibility of Digraphs and Tournaments
SIAM Journal on Discrete MathematicsFor an oriented graph $D$ and a set $X\subseteq V(D)$, the inversion of $X$ in $D$ is the digraph obtained by reversing the orientations of the edges of $D$ with both endpoints in $X$. The inversion number of $D$, $\textrm{inv}(D)$, is the minimum number of inversions which can be applied in turn to $D$ to produce an acyclic digraph. Answering a recent
Noga Alon +4 more
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Unintended effects of gender quotas on task assignment and firm performance
Economica, EarlyView.We examine the unintended effects of gender‐based hiring quotas on task allocation and organizational performance using a controlled laboratory experiment designed to mirror team formation and delegation decisions. Participants in the role of employers selected workers and assigned them to either simple or challenging tasks, where performance ...
José J. Domínguez, Natalia Montinari
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PLoS ONE, 2015 The purpose of this study was to: a) identify changes in jump height and perceived well-being as indirect markers of fatigue, b) determine the internal and external workloads performed by players, and c) examine the influence of Yo-Yo IR2 on changes in ...
Luke W Hogarth +2 more
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Big fish in a bigger pond: positional envy in the workplace
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract In an agency model with hidden information, we examine how skill heterogeneity can affect the design of optimal contracts and the distribution of rents across workers. We first consider a standard model with two worker types, and show that under certain conditions, the information rent accruing to high‐ability workers can be non‐monotonic ...
Rosaria Distefano, Francesco Reito
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Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine, 2014 The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of one-day wrestling tournament on magnitude and direction of changes in selected immunological and endocrine status indices.
Elżbieta Hübner-Woźniak +1 more
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