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Chengyuan Hua (@chengyuanhua.bsky.social) examines the wage-setting process in the NHL. He finds that teams with more coarse contracts have worse performance.

In a study of NBA data, work causally raises injury risk. Coaches rest players in response, raising player productivity, from Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin, and Lewis S. McLean www.nber.org/papers/w35803

This is about publishing in economics journals but I found it fascinating and probably applicable in other fields/areas- about why/how two papers asking the same question with the same answer might have very different landing spots in terms of a journal

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Providing the first large-scale economic evidence on the frequency and purpose of workplace meetings, using administrative data from Norway, from David J. Deming, Katrine V. Løken, Alexander Willén, and Yaling Xu www.nber.org/papers/w35706