Favoritism Under Social Pressure

By Luis Garicano, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, Canice Prendergast. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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Home Advantage in Football: A Current Review of an Unsolved Puzzle (2008, background): “This was first suggested by analyzing the frequency of disciplinary cards and other referee decisions [9,22-26].”
Favoritism of agents - The case of referees' home bias (2003, unknown): “18 Garicano et al. (2001) use the position of the team in the standings at the end of the current season.”
Are football referees really biased and inconsistent?: evidence on the incidence of disciplinary sanction in the English Premier League (2007, background): “Garicano et al. (2001) and Sutter and Kocher (2004) found a tendency for referees to add more time at the end of matches when the home team is trailing by one goal than when the home team is leading. Nevill et al. (2002) played videotapes of tackles to referees who, having been told the identities o”
Referee Bias (2016, background): “In contrast to the findings of Garicano et al. (2005), Kalist and Spurr (2006) find that increasing stakes for players did not increase home advantage in US-baseball, most probably due to actions taken to mitigate home team bias among referees.”
Causal effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during Covid-19 (2020, background): “There is already a well-developed literature investigating the effects of social pressure in sports on the decision making of participants and on contest outcomes (e.g., Dohmen and Sauermann, 2016; Garicano et al., 2005; Sutter and Kocher, 2004).”
Eliminating Supportive Crowds Reduces Referee Bias (2021, methodology): “Garicano et al. (2005) also used variation in crowd size and composition to suggest that social pressure is the cause of referee bias.”
The 12th man?: refereeing bias in English and German soccer (2010, background): “It is an example of ‘favouritism under social pressure’ (Garicano et al., 2005).”
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).”
Behavior Under Social Pressure: Empty Italian Stadiums and Referee Bias (2010, unknown): “For example, Price and Wolfers (2007) find evidence of racial discrimination among NBA referees while Garicano et al. (2005) find that soccer referees systematically favor the home team by shortening close games where the home team is ahead, and lengthening close games where”
Testing for altruism and social pressure in charitable giving. (2012, unknown): “We also thank Daniel Acland, Matthew Levy, Gautam Rao, and Xiaoyu Xia for excellent research assistance.”
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…”
Financial fair play in European football (2014, background): “This may stem from a number of factors such as the bias of the fans toward the home team, the convenience for the players (e.g. less travel) or the bias of the referees (see e.g. Garicano et al., 2005).”
The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees (2008, methodology): “The results documented in Figure 1 are largely in accordance with Garicano, Palacios-Huerta, and Prendergast (2005)’s findings except for the fact that Spanish referees seem to award more stoppage time when a match is drawn than when the visiting team is behind by one goal; the opposite is true in…”