Racers’ attractive looks, popularity, and performance : How do speedboat racers react to fans’ expectations?

Yamamura, Eiji; Hayashi, Ryohei; Tsutsui, Yoshiro; Ohtake, Fumio

Racers’ attractive looks, popularity, and performance : How do speedboat racers react to fans’ expectations?

Yamamura, Eiji; Hayashi, Ryohei; Tsutsui, Yoshiro et al.

Discussion Papers In Economics And Business, 2018, 18-28, 1-40

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Title	Racers’ attractive looks, popularity, and performance : How do speedboat racers react to fans’ expectations?
Creator	NRID 1000020368971 1000020368971 CreatorName Yamamura, Eiji
	NRID 1000080633544 1000080633544 CreatorName Hayashi, Ryohei
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Subject	Beauty
	Race betting odds
	Popularity
	Performance
	Gender difference
	Tournaments
Abstract	Using a large sample of individual-level records in Japan speedboat racing where men and women racers participate, we investigated how racers’ performance meets fans’ prerace expectations. To control for endogeneity bias, we measured the order of racers’attractiveness randomly determined in each race and then used this order as instrument for measuring racers’ popularity. The fixed effects IV estimations revealed the following. (1) Racers who are more attractive than their competitors tend to be more popular even after controlling for the condition of the race, racer ability, and other characteristics. (2) More popular men show better performance in the race even if the reward does not vary according to popularity; such tendency is not observed for women. This study contributes a novel setting for determining the expectation enhancing effects of physical attractiveness.
Publisher	Graduate School of Economics and Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University
Source Title	Discussion Papers In Economics And Business
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	Race betting odds
	Popularity
	Performance
	Gender difference
	Tournaments
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