Does Educational Background Affect Performance and Second Careers of Athletes? Empirical Analysis of Japanese Professional Baseball Players

Takashi Saito ()
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Takashi Saito: Meiji Gakuin University

A chapter in The Sports Business in The Pacific Rim, 2015, pp 253-276 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter analyzes whether players’ educational background affect their salary, performance, and second career using Japanese professional baseball player. First, the results obtained from an estimation of a Mincer-type annual salary function showed that the coefficients of educational background and school record are significant and positive, even when other factors were controlled. Second, the results of our probit or OLS (ordinary least squares) show that players who graduate or drop out of the university have higher probability of success as player than high school graduates after controlling for their ability. Last, it is found that players who graduate or drop out of the university tend to be coaches of professional baseball team after retiring.

Keywords: Educational Background; Annual Salary; Major League Baseball; School Record; Success Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10037-1_14

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