Do former athletes make better managers? Evidence from a partially adaptive grouped-data regression model

Empirical Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 275-290

  Caudill, Steven B ^a,b   Long, James E ^c  

^a RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Athletes; Censored regression model; Grouped data regression; Partially adaptive estimator

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; MANAGEMENT; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPORT;

EID: 77954455750     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-009-0304-8     Document Type: Article

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