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Does Educational Background Affect Performance and Second Careers of Athletes? Empirical Analysis of Japanese Professional Baseball Players

In: The Sports Business in The Pacific Rim

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  • Takashi Saito

    (Meiji Gakuin University)

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This chapter analyzes whether players’ educational background affect their salary, performance, and second career using Japanese professional baseball player. First, the results obtained from an estimation of a Mincer-type annual salary function showed that the coefficients of educational background and school record are significant and positive, even when other factors were controlled. Second, the results of our probit or OLS (ordinary least squares) show that players who graduate or drop out of the university have higher probability of success as player than high school graduates after controlling for their ability. Last, it is found that players who graduate or drop out of the university tend to be coaches of professional baseball team after retiring.

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  • Takashi Saito, 2015. "Does Educational Background Affect Performance and Second Careers of Athletes? Empirical Analysis of Japanese Professional Baseball Players," Sports Economics, Management, and Policy, in: Young Hoon Lee & Rodney Fort (ed.), The Sports Business in The Pacific Rim, edition 127, pages 253-276, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:semchp:978-3-319-10037-1_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10037-1_14
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