TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ariga, Kenn
AU  - Brunello, Giorgio
AU  - Iwahashi, Roki
AU  - Rocco, Lorenzo
        TI  - The Stairways to Heaven: A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess
        PY  - 2008/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3327
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3327
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - occupational choice
KW  - sports and games
        ER  -