%0 Report
        %A Ariga, Kenn
%A Brunello, Giorgio
%A Iwahashi, Roki
%A Rocco, Lorenzo
        %T The Stairways to Heaven: A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess
        %D 2008
        %8 2008 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3327
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3327
        %X We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find no evidence that the players in our sample from the ex-Warsaw Pact are more talented than European and American players, there is evidence that they face lower training costs.
        %K occupational choice
%K sports and games