A newer version of this project is available. See below for other available versions.

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 V2

Name File Type Size Last Modified
  Data 05/19/2023 08:16:AM
  Output 05/16/2023 12:50:PM
  Programs 05/19/2023 08:14:AM
  Raw 05/16/2023 12:52:PM
  Temp 05/16/2023 12:52:PM
READ ME.txt text/plain 635 bytes 05/16/2023 09:05:AM

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], 2023-05-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/E191501V2

Project Description

Summary:  View help for 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.

Requires Stata version 12 (or higher) with internet access.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Sports injury; Concussion; Risk-escalation; Incentive; National Football League; Injury policy; Injury prevention
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      I12 Health Behavior
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      Z28 Sports Economics: Policy
Manuscript Number:  View help for Manuscript Number ECIN-Jan-2023-0031
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2012 – 2015 (2012 to 2015 National Football League regular-season games )
Universe:  View help for 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:  View help for Collection Notes All information collected from publicly available sources.

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for 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:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation team-game

Related Publications

Download this project

Published Versions

V4 [2023-07-08]

V3 [2023-06-27]

V2 [2023-05-19]

V1 [2023-05-16]

Export Metadata

Dublin Core

DDI 2.5

Report a Problem

Found a serious problem with the data, such as disclosure risk or copyrighted content? Let us know.

This material is distributed exactly as it arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.