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Playing in a pandemic: The impact of family on performance in the NBA's “bubble”

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  • Richard J. Paulsen
  • Olivia Boucot

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Using the setting of the National Basketball Association's “bubble” during early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic, we use fixed‐effects regressions with game‐level player data to test for the impact of “psychic” costs of migration on worker productivity. We construct a unique dataset on player families to test for differential impacts of worker isolation from friends and family on players in committed relationships or those with children. Our results indicate that relative to other players, the “psychic” costs of the migration of playing in the “bubble” had a differential negative impact on the performance of players in relationships and/or with children.

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  • Richard J. Paulsen & Olivia Boucot, 2023. "Playing in a pandemic: The impact of family on performance in the NBA's “bubble”," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(4), pages 2102-2109, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:mgtdec:v:44:y:2023:i:4:p:2102-2109
    DOI: 10.1002/mde.3804
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