12th ESEA Conference on Sport Economics – Online Conference hosted by Bielefeld University (Germany) 25 – 27 August 2021 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS Local Organizers: Prof. Dr. Pamela Wicker & Prof. Dr. Christian Deutscher Table of Contents I Table of Contents Preface by the ESEA President ............................................................................................... 1 Preface by the Local Organizers ............................................................................................. 2 Scientific Committee ................................................................................................................ 3 PhD Workshop ......................................................................................................................... 4 Best Young Researcher Paper Award (BYRPA) .................................................................. 5 2020 Peter Sloane Award ......................................................................................................... 6 Program of the 12th ESEA Conference on Sport Economics .............................................. 7 Opening Keynote .................................................................................................................... 10 ABSTRACTS .......................................................................................................................... 11 Session I: Gender Economics ................................................................................................ 12 Coates, Weber: Productivity in Women’s Football ............................................................. 13 Walker, Allred, Berri: Could More Dunking Help the WNBA? ......................................... 16 Lackner, Weichselbaumer: The causal effect of past on present performance for women and men - Evidence from top-level Tennis ................................................. 19 Session II: Environmental Economics & Discrimination ................................................... 23 Naidenova, Parshakov, Suvorov: Air Pollution and Individual Productivity: Evidence from the Ironman Triathlon Results ........................................................................ 24 Maennig, Mueller: Consumer and employer discrimination in Major League Baseball – New evidence on the cost of discrimination ......................................................... 26 Session III: Betting & Voting ................................................................................................ 29 Merz, Flepp, Franck: Underestimating randomness: Outcome bias in betting exchange markets ..................................................................................................... 30 Ötting, Michels, Langrock, Deutscher: Patterns of betting behavior for news in live betting markets ......................................................................................................... 33 Budzinski, Gaenssle, Kunz-Kaltenhäuser: Differences in Jury Voting, Peer Voting, and Fan Voting - Analyzing the NFL´s All-Pro and Pro-Bowl Voting Outcomes ................................................................................................................. 36 Session IV: Sport Participation ............................................................................................. 40 Downward: Youth Sport and Mental Health: Can sport contribute to solving the mental health crisis? ................................................................................................ 41 de Boer, Mierau, Koning: Deconstructing the health benefits of sport participation: how are the amount, intensity and type of sport participation associated with socioeconomic differences in obesity, diabetes and all-cause mortality? ............... 44 Boller, Lechner, Okasa: The Effect of Sport in Online Dating: Evidence from Causal Machine Learning .................................................................................................... 47 Session V: Bias ........................................................................................................................ 50 Table of Contents II Humphreys, Marsella, Pérez: The effect of crowds on petty-crime law enforcement: A natural experiment from European football leagues ............................................ 51 Faltings, Krumer, Lechner: Rot-Jaune-Verde. Language and Favoritism: Evidence from Swiss Soccer ................................................................................................... 54 Veldkamp, Koning: The impact of the video assistant referee (VAR) at the conversion rates of penalty kicks in the highest leagues of professional football ..................................................................................................................... 57 Session VI: Sport Finance ...................................................................................................... 60 Ratz, Pfeffel: Supporter Crowdfunding –The Implicit Role of Fan Loyalty and Trust ...... 61 Suominen: Sport and cultural events: willingness to pay, facial expressions and skin response ................................................................................................................... 64 Thormann, Gehrmann, Wicker: The monetary value of sport participation and volunteering: The wellbeing valuation approach..................................................... 68 Session VII: Performance I ................................................................................................... 71 Huang, Soebbing: Dispersion in (UN)Explained Pay and On-Field Team Performance: The Case of Italian Serie A ............................................................... 72 Frick, Simmons: Into Thin Air: Team Composition and Team Performance in Himalayan Expeditions, 1990-2019 ........................................................................ 75 Bühren, Gabriel: Performing best when it matters the most: Evidence from professional handball ............................................................................................... 78 Session VIII: Demand I .......................................................................................................... 81 Watanabe, Xue, Yan, Newman: Demand for Esports: An Econometric Analysis of the Digital Sport Economy ...................................................................................... 82 Mueller: Fan loyalty and uncertainty-of-outcome preferences: New evidence from Major League Baseball ............................................................................................ 85 Naidenova, Parshakov: Broadcasts vs. highlights: What does a modern consumer prefer? ...................................................................................................................... 88 Session IX: Careers I .............................................................................................................. 90 Grey, Booth, Brooks: The Golden Age in Rowing: Has the Age of Peak Performance Changed? ................................................................................................................. 91 Butler, Coates: The Impact of Position on Salary Determination: Evidence from Major League Soccer ............................................................................................... 93 Böheim, Grübl, Lackner: Salary and delinquent conduct in the NBA ................................ 96 Session X: Managers & Coaches ........................................................................................... 99 Dietl, Lang, Orlowski, Wegelin: To go or having to go: Effects of voluntary vs. involuntary job changes on subsequent performance ............................................ 100 Nasser: Manager’s Contribution to Team’s Performance: The Egyptian Premier Football League ..................................................................................................... 103 Dallmeyer, Orlowski: The ultimate scapegoat: COVID-19 and managerial turnover ...... 106 Session XI: Competition ...................................................................................................... 109 Mao: Survival of the fittest: Experience quality, market demographics, and competition ............................................................................................................ 110 Skrok, Lubasiński: Subsidy competition in professional football in Europe: a case of a CEE country ........................................................................................................ 113 Table of Contents III Sonnabend, Reicherseder: When colleagues come to see each other as rivals: Does internal competition affect workplace performance? Evidence from European soccer ..................................................................................................................... 116 Session XII: Performance II ................................................................................................ 119 Olsen, Leeds: Adapt or Die? Integration and Team Performance in the NBA ................. 120 Peeters, van Ours: International Assortative Matching ..................................................... 123 Session XIII: Careers II ....................................................................................................... 127 Berri, Rossi, Simmons, Tordoff: Is the labor market for goalkeepers efficient? .............. 128 Hoey: The effect of early career exposure to employers on future career outcomes: evidence from the National Hockey League.........................................................