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Beyond the pitch: Exploring the role of beauty in soccer player salaries
Journal of Economic Psychology. 2024. Vol. 101. Article 102709.
The paper explores the potential influence of subjective factors on salary determination, particularly examining the impact of physical appearance on the earnings of soccer players. This study encompasses data from 373 Major League Soccer players over 12 seasons (2007-2018). Facial symmetry, quantified using the coordinates of each player’s facial features, is utilized as an indicator of physical attractiveness. Various analytical models, including linear, semiparametric, and quantile models, are applied. The results point to a notable 'beauty premium' in the salary structure within this context, with the effects being more significant among the highest earners.
Keywords: soccer; beauty premium; salary; attractiveness; facial symmetry
Churakova I., Кумар В., Dianli Xitong Baohu yu Kongzhi/Power System Protection and Control 2026 No. 54 (3) P. 428–454
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This study examines the impact of Predictive Intelligence (PI) and Real-Time Data Insights (RDI) on Corporate Financial Sustainability (CFS), while controlling for organizational factors, industry factors, and AI-related risk factors. The research aims to determine whether these analytic capabilities (PI and RDI) individually and jointly contribute to long-term financial resilience and performance in modern organizations.
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Elyashevich I., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 6: Экономика 2026 Т. 61 № 3 С. 363–384
The study examined the properties of the normal distribution of the values of shipments of stocks of various categories from warehouses of large industrial companies. As a result, it was revealed that the use of the classical normal distribution, in some cases, may give incorrect results, since the values of stock shipments are positive values, ...
Added: September 3, 2026
Методы оценки структурных изменений в векторных и матричных агрегатах макроэкономических показателей
Lesnykh M., Motorin V., Тенденции экономического развития в XXI веке: Материалы VIІІ Международной научно-практической конференции, Республик Беларусь 2026 P. 233–236
The paper deals with comparative analysis of various methods for measuring and studying dynamics of structural macroeconomic indicators that reflect the peculiarities in a movement of multi-component macroeconomic systems. The metric, trigonometric and angular measures of structural changes are considered within vector formalism. Intertemporal orthogonal decomposition of a vector aggregate into the sum of quantity ...
Added: September 3, 2026
Zaruckiy M., Motorin V., Тенденции экономического развития в XXI веке: Материалы VIІІ Международной научно-практической конференции 2026 P. 237–240
The paper is devoted to developing the complex of input–output models for evaluating a potential receptivity of an economy to import substitution in final use and intermediate consumption ...
Added: September 3, 2026
Koshcheev D., Isopeskul O., М.: Инфра-М, 2027.
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The monograph presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of research related to the assessment of the tourist potential of administrative-territorial units (ATUs) from 1882 to 2024. For the first time, scientific schools are identified, and the author's approach to predictive values and a methodology for the quantitative assessment of the ...
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М.: МАКС Пресс, 2026.
The book consists of materials submitted by Russian and Foreign scientists to the Organizing
Committee of the All-Russian Round Table “Logic and Paradoxes of Modern Education Manage
ment”. The round table was held at the Faculty of Sociology of Lomonosov Moscow State University
on June 08, 2026. The texts are published in author's edition. Organizing Committee`s point of ...
Added: September 2, 2026
Proskuryakova L. N., Asia-Pacific Tech Monitor 2026 Vol. 43 No. 2 P. 13–24
Innovative financing tools and models have proved their efficiency in supporting the adoption and scale-up of emerging technologies. They have been instrumental in different regions, including the Asia-Pacific region, which stands at the forefront of technological innovation. Studies point to several persistent emerging technological constraints that include high upfront capital costs, perceived risks, and limited ...
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Tatarinov A., Вопросы статистики 2026 Т. 33 № 2 С. 19–39
The second part of the paper continues the examination of the new methodological provisions of the system of national accounts, building on the discussion initiated in the previous publication. It analyzes key changes in the accounting of economic transactions, with particular attention to digital services, globalization, the composition of production costs under the sum‑of‑costs valuation method, and ...
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Abashkin V., Abdrakhmanova G., Artemov S. V. et al., ИСИЭЗ ВШЭ, 2026.
Одиннадцатый выпуск аналитического доклада, подготовленный Институтом статистических исследований и экономики знаний Национального исследовательского университета «Высшая школа экономики» в рамках деятельности Российской кластерной обсерватории, посвящен анализу инновационного развития российских регионов на основе комплекса рейтинговых оценок. Исследование базируется на системе показателей, характеризующих социально-экономические условия инновационной деятельности, научно-технический потенциал, уровни инновационной и экспортной активности, качество региональной инновационной
политики. Используемые ...
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Morozkina A., Есаян М. А., Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право 2025 Т. 18 № 4 С. 169–190
In the context of budget constraints, the allocation of development finance is one of the important research questions. This article proposes a study of the allocation of sovereign financing in the Eurasian region in 2008-2022 using new data (the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD) sovereign financing database). The analysis shows that the most ...
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СПб.: Издательство СПбГЭУ, 2025.
Вашему вниманию предлагается 19-й ежегодный сборник научных статей по вопросам региональной экономики и территориального развития.
Несмотря на сложное положение в экономике, продолжает развиваться межрегиональное сотрудничество регионов СЗФО. Активно взаимодействуют Санкт-Петербург и Ленинградская область в части развития единого транспортно-логистического комплекса. Идет формирование единого рынка труда на основе баланса трудовых ресурсов города и области. Разрабатывается единая схема размещения ...
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Asemota M. O., DISCOVER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 2026 Vol. 6 Article 892
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping work and human resource management, yet existing reviews largely treat competencies as secondary outcomes of AI adoption and offer limited theory-driven integration of how competency management itself is transforming. This study addresses that gap by systematically examining how competency management has evolved in AI-enabled contexts, how dominant theories explain AI-driven ...
Added: August 31, 2026
DISCOVER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 2026 Vol. 6 Article 892
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping work and human resource management, yet existing reviews largely treat competencies as secondary outcomes of AI adoption and offer limited theory-driven integration of how competency management itself is transforming. This study addresses that gap by systematically examining how competency management has evolved in AI-enabled contexts, how dominant theories explain AI-driven ...
Added: August 31, 2026
Petrov I., Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 2026
This paper studies a social-norm model in which agents choose effort in response to their own productivity and the efforts of their neighbours. We analyse how links between groups with different productivity levels affect equilibrium effort and derive the intergroup linking intensity that maximises aggregate effort. We work in a stylised two-group stochastic block setting ...
Added: August 30, 2026
Svetlana Grigorieva, Narmin Isaeva, Aliya Azizova et al., Journal of Corporate Finance Research 2026 Vol. 20 No. 1 P. 75–84
This paper identifies the determinants of green bonds on global markets, China and Russia and evaluates the hedging effect of these instruments. We contribute to the existing literature by (1) studying the emerging markets such as Russia and China, (2) providing comparative analysis of the impact of identical factors on green bond yields on global, ...
Added: August 29, 2026
Nesseler C., Gasparetto T. M., Parshakov P., Managerial and Decision Economics 2024
Research has suggested many ways in which professional football players can increase their penalty shooting success rate. We set up a field experiment testing these recommendations. We perform the experiment with one of the most successful youth academies in the world. All players are highly skilled, including prospective and current Brazilian youth national players. The ...
Added: September 6, 2024
Kharitonov T. I., Метаморфозис 2023 Т. 8 № 1 С. 9–25
This article contains a characteristic and a periodization of the reception of Schiller’s aesthetic philosophy in the writings of Dostoevsky. The comparison of the works of both authors, provided in this article, leads to a conclusion that Schiller’s influence is highly significant both for the early and for the late writings of Dostoevsky, but the ...
Added: November 15, 2023
Kirpishchikov D., Parshakov P., Zavertiaeva M. A., International Journal of Sport Finance 2023 Vol. 18 No. 2 P. 84–96
Previous papers provide evidence that psychological characteristics such as personal masculinity are related to performance. Although relationships have been well established on an individual level, there has been little attempt to analyze the performance of teams that diverge in terms of masculinity. This paper studies the impact of team masculinity on its performance, paying particular ...
Added: May 3, 2023
Molodchik M., Paklina S., Parshakov P., Journal of Sports Economics 2021 Vol. 22 No. 5 P. 571–586
The paper investigates the variety of peer effects on individual performance in a team sport. The individual performance of more than 5,000 soccer players, from 234 teams, between 2010 and 2015, is measured with the help of the FIFA video game simulator developed by EA Sports. The study reveals positive peer effects on individual performance ...
Added: March 24, 2021
Naidenova I. N., Nesseler C., Parshakov P. et al., Plos One 2020 Vol. 15 No. 10 P. 1–17
This paper examines the issue of employee discrimination after a political crisis: the annexation of Crimea. The annexation, which resulted in a political crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations, is a setting which allows us to test if a bilateral political issue caused employee discrimination. We use a quasi-experimental approach to examine how the political crisis influenced ...
Added: October 30, 2020
Bykova A., Coates D. C., Contemporary Economic Policy 2020 Vol. 38 No. 1 P. 188–205
Using Major League Soccer as a unique dataset, this study examines the direct andindirect role of coaches’ experience in determining team performance. Inspired by labormarket studies, we applied traditional indicators of team salary structure and, unlikeprevious studies, empirically test the hypothesis that coach experience affects the way inwhich team salary distribution inuences performance. Our results ...
Added: October 22, 2019
Mert A., ИНТЕРакция. ИНТЕРвью. ИНТЕРпретация 2019 № 17 С. 33–45
The article reviews the historical dynamics of the conceptualization of human beauty in feminist thought throughout the 20th century. The article proposes a comparative and critical analysis of the texts, which represent certain stages and the characteristic modes of feminist theory in the most concentrated form. The author selected from the first wave of feminism ...
Added: April 8, 2019
Coates D. C., Frick B., Journal of Sports Economics 2015
This study estimates the relationship between production and salary structure in Major League Soccer (MLS), the highest level of professional soccer (association football) in North America. Soccer production, measured as league-points-per-game, is modeled as a function of a team’s total wage bill, the distribution of the team’s wage bill, and goals per game. Both the ...
Added: January 22, 2016
Knyazeva H., Вопросы философии и психологии 2015 Т. 5 № 3 С. 175–191
An ancient philosophical problem of synthesis of the highest values of the human activities and cognition, namely of truth, good and beauty, is under consideration in the article. The problem was formulated by the philosophers of the classical period of the ancient Greek philosophy as a kalos kagathos. The modern approach for the solution of ...
Added: October 25, 2015