by Carlos Gómez González, Thadeu Gasparetto, and Cornel Nesseler
We discuss the paper "Sports-based Entertainment and Crime Evidence from Football Games in Brazil". The author of this paper is Ilaria Masiero (University of Geneva). The paper was published in 2022 in Journal of Sports Economics. You can find the paper here.
We discuss the paper "An Analysis of Broadcasting Media Using Social Media Engagement in the WNBA". The authors of this paper are Ann Pegoraro (University of Guelph), Heather Kennedy (University of Guelph), Nola Agha (University of San Francisco), Nicholas Brown (University of San Francisco), and David Berri (Southern Utah University). The paper was published in 2021 in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. You can find the paper here.
We discuss the paper "Feasibility of the Olympic marathon under climatic and socioeconomic change". The authors of this paper are Takahiro Oyama (The University of Tokyo), Jun’ya Takakura (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa), Minoru Fujii (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa), Kenichi Nakajima (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa) & Yasuaki Hijioka (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa). The paper was published in 2022 in Scientific Reports. You can find the paper here.
We discuss the paper "Can Professional Football Players Adapt to Air Pollution? Evidence From China". The authors of this paper are Yu Qin (National University of Singapore), Jing Wu (Tsinghua University), Rongjie Zhang (Tsinghua University) The paper was published in 2022 in Journal of Sports Economics. You can find the paper here.
We discuss the paper "English goalkeepers are not responsible for England’s poor performance in penalty shootouts in the past". The authors of this paper are Michel Brinkschulte (German Sport University Cologne), Philip Furley (German Sport University Cologne), Maximilian Klemp (German Sport University Cologne), and Daniel Memmert (German Sport University Cologne) The paper was published in 2021 in scientific reports. You can find the paper here.
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes The authors of this paper are Ala’ Alrababa’h (Stanford University), William Marble (Stanford University), Salma Mousa (Yale University), and Alexandra A. Siegel (University of Colorado Boulder) The paper was published in 2021 in American Political Science Review. You can find the paper here
Building social cohesion between Christians and Muslims through soccer in post-ISIS Iraq The author of this paper is Salma Mousa (Stanford University) The paper was published in 2020 in Science. You can find the paper here
We discuss the paper Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning. The authors of this paper are Peter R. Wurman (Sony AI, New York), Samuel Barrett (Sony AI, New York), Kenta Kawamoto (Sony AI, Tokyo), James MacGlashan (Sony AI, New York), Kaushik Subramanian (Sony AI, Zürich), Thomas J. Walsh (Sony AI, New York), Roberto Capobianco (Sony AI, Zürich), Alisa Devlic (Sony AI, Zürich), Franziska Eckert (Sony AI, Zürich), Florian Fuchs (Sony AI, Zürich), Leilani Gilpin (Sony AI, New York), Piyush Khandelwal (Sony AI, New York), Varun Kompella (Sony AI, New York), HaoChih Lin (Sony AI, Zürich), Patrick MacAlpine (Sony AI, New York), Declan Oller (Sony AI, New York), Takuma Seno (Sony AI, Tokyo), Craig Sherstan (Sony AI, New York), Michael D. Thomure (Sony AI, New York), Houmehr Aghabozorgi (Sony AI, New York), Leon Barrett (Sony AI, New York), Rory Douglas (Sony AI, New York), Dion Whitehead (Sony AI, New York), Peter Dürr (Sony AI, Zürich), Peter Stone (Sony AI, New York), Michael Spranger (Sony AI, Tokyo) & Hiroaki Kitano (Sony AI, Tokyo). The paper was published in 2022 in Nature. You can find the paper here.
The authors of this paper are Emma Seal (RMIT University), Buly A. Cardak (La Trobe University), Matthew Nicholson (Monash University and La Trobe University), Alex Donaldson (La Trobe University), Paul O’Halloran (La Trobe University), Erica Randle (La Trobe University), Kiera Staley (La Trobe University). The paper was published in 2022 in Journal of Gambling Studies. You can find the paper here
We discuss the research paper "Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market" The authors of this paper are Christopher M. McLeod (University of Florida), Hanhan Xue (Florida State University), Joshua I. Newman (Florida State University). The paper was published in 2021 in International Review for the Sociology of Sport. You can find the paper here.