Promotions in the Internal and External Labor Market: Evidence from Professional Football Coaching Careers*

Moving on up: The Rooney rule and minority hiring in the NFL

“…This correlation across coordinators on the same team (0.36 correlation in the data) could lead to biased results. Following Fee et al (2006), 1457 † The dependent variable takes a value of 1 if the level-two assistant is promoted to head coach and zero otherwise. The marginal effects are calculated at the point of means for all variables except performance, which is set at the 90th percentile.…”

“…In a paper that is most similar to the analysis presented here, Fee et al (2006) focus on the factors that affect internal versus external hiring of NFL coaches. Their results, based on logit regression models with data from 1970 to 2001 which control for coaches' performance (in the case of promotions), age, experience with the team, and team performance, point to potentially important differences between the processes by which high-level assistant coaches are promoted to head coach and head coaches are hired from outside.…”

“…We start with the database of Fee et al (2006), and extend it to cover the period through the 2009 season. Specifically, we have a complete set of information on who held coaching positions for the 1970 through the beginning of the 2009 season.…”

The Good or the Bad? Which Mutual Fund Managers Join Hedge Funds?

“…The first strand investigates internal signals affecting the retention and promotion of managers (e.g., Weisbach 1988;Fee, Hadlock, and Pierce 2006;Lehn and Zhao 2006;and Cichello, Fee, Hadlock, and Sonti 2009). The asset management profession provides a unique context for labor market research with a well-tracked investment performance for individual fund managers (e.g., see Khorana 1996;and Chevalier and Ellison 1999).…”

Can a sub-optimal tournament be optimal when the prize can be collectively consumed? The case of college football's national championship

“…In the earliest of that listed here,Zech (2001) contends that church pastor compensation is typically tied indirectly to performance through promotion tournaments, wherein exceptional church pastors are rewarded by being called to larger and more prestigious church congregations. Finally,Fee et al (2006) use tournament theory concepts to examine the promotion of coaches in professional football. 8 SeeRyvkin and Ortmann (2006) for further discussion and also for additional references,Bognanno (1990a and1990b) andBognanno (2001) for more on binary elimination tournaments andLevin and Nalebuff (1995),Ben-Yashar and Nitzan (1997) andEsteben and Ray (2001) for use of round-robin formats in public choice settings.…”