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ECIN Replication Package for "Sports injuries and game stakes: Concussions in the National Football League"

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jeffrey Cisyk, Charles River Associates; Pascal Courty, University of Victoria

Version: View help for Version V1

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Project Citation:

Cisyk, Jeffrey, and Courty, Pascal. ECIN Replication Package for “Sports injuries and game stakes: Concussions in the National Football League.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-05-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/E191501V1

Project Description

Summary: Contained herein are the complete materials to replicate the findings of "Sports injuries and games stakes: Concussion in the National Football League" including the novel incentive-based measure of the importance of each NFL regular-season game termed the game's "swing" value.

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Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Sports injury; Concussion; Risk-escalation; Incentive; National Football League; Injury policy; Injury prevention

JEL Classification:
      I12 Health Behavior
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      Z28 Sports Economics: Policy

Manuscript Number: ECIN-Jan-2023-0031

Time Period(s): 2012 – 2015 (2012 to 2015 National Football League regular-season games )

Universe: Excludes all neutral-site games and the final game of each team for each regular season (due to censoring in main dependent variable).

Collection Notes: All information collected from publicly available sources.

Methodology

Data Source: Concussion events: PBS Frontline Concussion Watch
Elo values: FiveThirtyEight.com
Game information: Pro-Football-Reference.com; NFLWeather.com; SportsMediaWatch.com

Unit(s) of Observation: team-game

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