Religious Fasting and Elite Performance
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Recommended citation: Froch, Jonas; Hua, Chengyuan; Nasser, Galila. (2026). ; "Religious Fasting and Elite Performance"; Working Paper
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Showing Visibility When it Matters: Contingent Employment and Effort
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We examine contingent employment arrangements, assuming that agents perceive them as exceptional opportunities to signal their capabilities to the labor market. We study a multitask career-concerns model in which employment contingency shifts effort toward highly visible tasks at the expense of less visible ones. Exploiting a distinct setting of contingent employment in professional soccer, we test this effort-visibility hypothesis via entropy balancing. Consistent with the model, we observe that agents reallocate effort toward more visible actions while reducing effort in more subtle actions.
Recommended citation: Froch, Jonas; Gürtler, Oliver; Sage, Felix (2026): "Showing Visibility When it Matters: Contingent Employment and Effort"; Working Paper
The Relocation Effect of a Major League Franchise on Residential Property Values
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We exploit the relocation of the NFL’s Rams franchise as a natural experiment to estimate the effect of residential proximity to sports amenities using difference-in-differences hedonics. For a sample of single-family homes transacted in St. Louis between 2012 and 2019, we reveal that the relocation has provoked a significant relative price depreciation of 7.52% in housing values within a three-mile impact area. Subsequent distance ring analyses show that the effect is dispersed heterogeneously across space and declines in a non-linear distance-decaying pattern from the former host stadium. We perform a synthetic control analysis and identify a stagnation in the number of food and accommodation establishments, along with a moderate decline in retail trade establishments, as an important transmission mechanism underlying the observed loss in local amenity value. Approximating the aggregate relative housing value depreciation suggests the Rams generated substantial intangible amenity value, though insufficient to provide a compelling economic rationale for the generous public subsidization seen in recent decades.
Recommended citation: Froch, Jonas; (2025); "The Relocation Effect of a Major League Franchise on Residential Property Values"; Working Paper
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