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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Are Demographic Diversity Effects Spurious?
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Stephan Nüesch
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Journal Title Economic Analysis and Policy
Geographical Reach international
Page Range 379 - 388
Date 2009
Abstract Text The substantial literature on the relationship between demographic diversity and team performance yields weak and/or inconsistent results. Using match-level data of all games played in the German soccer league Bundesliga over six seasons, this paper analyzes age, race and tenure diversity of the fielded team under different model specifications to test the robustness of demographic diversity effects. The empirical results reveal that the correlations between demographic diversity and the outcome of the game are confounded by mean values of the demographic attributes and contextual covariates.
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