Date of Award
December 2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Economics
Committee Member
Frederick A Hanssen
Committee Member
Raymond Sauer
Committee Member
Scott R Templeton
Abstract
This paper adds to the literature on the relative age effect in athletic, academic, and professional pursuits. It estimates the effects of month of birth on professional athletes in the NHL, NBA, and MLB regarding their performance and “making it” to the professional level. I used data from each of the sports and compared their month of birth distributions to what we would expect from the general population and analyzed the relationship between player’s month of birth and their performance statistics.
Recommended Citation
Hensley, CeCe Jordan, "The Presence of the Relative Age Effect in Professional Sports" (2020). All Theses. 3438.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/3438