Do coaches in the national basketball association actually display racial bias? A replication and extension
We replicate and extend empirical evidence that has been interpreted as coaches’ racial bias in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by Schroffel and Magee (2012) and Zhang (2017, 2019). We extend the published results by modeling coaches’ decisions of “resting the starters,” a common tactical...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/118282 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10171/118282 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Race relations Organizational sociology National Basketball Association Racism Basketball Basketball coaching |
| Sumario: | We replicate and extend empirical evidence that has been interpreted as coaches’ racial bias in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by Schroffel and Magee (2012) and Zhang (2017, 2019). We extend the published results by modeling coaches’ decisions of “resting the starters,” a common tactical decision based on players’ quality, thus exploring whether this tactic may provide an alternative explanation for associations that have been interpreted as racial bias thus far. Our results show that, after empirically accounting for “resting the starters,” the magnitude of the associations that have been previously taken to indicate coaches’ racial bias becomes small and not statistically distinguishable from zero. We discuss the implications of our findings on the literatures on racial integration in organizations and on the sociology of sports and race. |
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