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.

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