The influence of schooling on performance in chess and at the Olympics.

ABSTRACT: At the macro-level, it is hard to test the hypothesis that increased schooling in a country will raise labour productivity but sectoral analyses may be tractable. In sports, output is homogenous in that countries' achievements are measurable in the same way. We examine country performances at the Chess Olympiad and the Olympic Games, contrasting tournaments where players in the first use only their minds but most in the second supply substantial physical effort or work with costly physical capital. Modelling success in either leads to a set of results familiar from sports literature: country performance depends on economic resources, represented by population size and per capita income. Supplementary variables capture over-performance by communist/ former communist countries. We then intro

SUBMITTER: Forrest D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9171080 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature