Mitigation of relative age effects through targeted policy intervention: a natural experiment from professional tennis
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| Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Minderung des relativen Alterseffektes durch gezielte politische Intervention: ein natürliches Experiment im professionellen Tennis |
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| Autor: | Wendling, Elodie; Mills, Brian M. |
| Erschienen in: | Social science quarterly |
| Veröffentlicht: | 99 (2018), 4, S. 1496-1509, Lit. |
| Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
| Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
| Medienart: | Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISSN: | 1540-6237, 0038-4941 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ssqu.12516 |
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| Erfassungsnummer: | PU201903002410 |
| Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
Objective
We address the impact of policy intervention in youth tennis targeted at mitigating the influence of labor market‐persistent relative age effects known to exist in age‐grouped cohorts of students and athletes.
Methods
We take advantage of a natural experiment in policy implementation in U.S. youth tennis using a difference‐in‐difference‐in‐difference framework to identify effects among players born early and late in the year at the professional level using data from 1990 through 2015.
Results
Estimations reveal that the policy was successful in improving relative performance for U.S. men's tennis players born late in the year; however, there was no apparent effect on rankings for women.
Conclusion
We propose that while policy can have effects at the professional level, policy prescriptions that depend on physical or mental maturity may differ depending on sex or gender and require specificity in structure for various groups.