@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp3327,
            	author={Ariga, Kenn and Brunello, Giorgio and Iwahashi, Roki and Rocco, Lorenzo},
            	title={The Stairways to Heaven: A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess},
            	year={2008},
	month={Jan},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={3327},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3327},
	abstract={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.},
	keywords={occupational choice;sports and games},
            }