Sport

When does managerial experience matter? Evidence from Major League Baseball

In the world of professional sports, a manager's ability to influence team success is often questioned. This study exploits a unique feature of Major League Baseball (MLB), which has different rules of play depending on what league a team is in, to …

Sentiment and bias in performance evaluation by impartial arbitrators

This study investigates whether relative performance evaluations of labor output are biased in the presence of sentiment, even when the (supposedly independent) evaluators are external. Data from a field-experiment setting—involving a pro-sport …