The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees

By Thomas J. Dohmen. 2008

235 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Babatunde Buraimo
2. Rob Simmons
3. Dominik Schreyer
4. Adam Cox
5. Daniel S. Hamermesh
6. David Forrest
7. Miguel-Ángel Gómez
8. Richard Pollard

In Gender Studies

1. Babatunde Buraimo
2. Rob Simmons
3. Dominik Schreyer
4. Adam Cox
5. David Forrest
6. Miguel-Ángel Gómez
7. Richard Pollard
8. Vincenzo Scoppa

In Safety Research

1. Dominik Schreyer
2. Rob Simmons
3. Richard Pollard
4. David Forrest
5. Miguel-Ángel Gómez
6. Vincenzo Scoppa
7. J. Reade
8. Daniel S. Hamermesh

Citations in the corpus

• Eliminating Supportive Crowds Reduces Referee Bias (2021, background): “Similar effects of the crowd on referee bias in injury time decisions were documented by Dohmen (2008a) for German football and Scoppa (2008) for Italian football.”
• The 12th man?: refereeing bias in English and German soccer (2010, background): “We can test for refereeing bias in the Bundesliga through the exploitation of information about the presence of a running track in stadia (Dohmen, 2008).”
• Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence From Same-Stadium Derbies (2018, background): “awarding more penalties and less disciplinary sanctions to the home team or conceding more injury time to it when is behind (Nevill et al. 2002; Garicano et al., 2005; Dohmen, 2008; Sutter and Kocher, 2004; Scoppa, 2008; Dawson and Dobson, 2010; Page and Page, 2010).”
• Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives, and Evaluation (2011, background): “Several studies (e.g., Luis Garicano et al, 2005; Eric W. Zitzewitz, 2006, and Thomas J. Dohmen, 2008) have examined home-team preferences by referees/judges in various sports, and another, Michael A. Stoll et al (2004) examines racial match preferences in employment 2The data also include a small…”
• Components of home advantage in 157 national soccer leagues worldwide (2014, background): “With regard to crowd proximity, the absence of a running track has been shown to be related to an increased home advantage in several countries, including Greece (Armatas & Pollard, 2012) and Germany (Dohmen, 2008).”