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The Stairways to Heaven: A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess

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Ariga, Kenn () (Kyoto University)
Brunello, Giorgio () (University of Padova)
Iwahashi, Roki () (University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa)
Rocco, Lorenzo () (University of Padova)

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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.

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Keywords: occupational choice; sports and games;

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J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations

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