Fly Like an Eagle

Bernd Frick and Friedrich Scheel

Journal of Sports Economics, 2016, vol. 17, issue 8, 813-831

Abstract: We investigate the impact of individual performance and competitive pressure on the duration of ski jumpers’ careers. We find that the degree of competition in the respective national associations has a statistically significant impact on individual career duration: Poorly performing athletes have a higher survival probability if they cannot be replaced (i.e., if the jumpers with whom they compete for the limited number of slots in their national team perform even worse). Moreover, “superstars†—(former) World Champions—can expect significantly longer careers as their nominations seem to be justified by their past success rather than by their current performance.

Keywords: ski jumping; performance; competitive pressure; career duration; survival analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/1527002514548723

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